On November 6, 2026, the final of the "University Cyber League: Final Flame 2026" cyber competition took place at the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, featuring the top participants from the qualifying stages representing various universities across Ukraine.
💻 13 students from the Department of Cybersecurity at Khmelnytskyi National University successfully passed the qualifying stage and represented our university in the final.
🥇 We are especially proud of our students' results in the Q2 category, where representatives of KhNU secured all four top places!
🏆 1st place — Volodymyr Oliinyk (392 points)
🥈 2nd place — Denys Stadnik (387 points)
🥉 3rd place — Bohdan Militsiia (260 points)
🏅 4th place — Karina Semeniuk (247 points)
👏 Congratulations also to our other finalists, who achieved impressive results among the 30 participants in the category:
7th place — Denys Berbets
9th place — Roman Zvir
12th place — Nataliia Shevchuk
13th place — Mykola Kostiuk
14th place — Illia Sysak
17th place — Oleksandr Lavreniuk
18th place — Artem Dmytryshyn
20th place — Arsenii Lypenko
21st place — Dmytro Syrotenko
🔐 The competition served as the culmination of the international educational initiative "Pilot Program for Enhancing Cybersecurity Skills Gaps in Ukraine," aimed at developing the practical competencies of future cybersecurity professionals.
We extend our sincere thanks to the project organizers and partners—Security Expert Group (SEG), CybExer Technologies, and the Estonian Centre for International Development (ESTDEV)—as well as to Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University for organizing the final!
💙💛 We are proud of our students! We wish you new professional achievements, complex and interesting challenges, and even more victories!
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