Elsewhere Shakhtar Donetsk continued its run up the table with a 1-0 defeat Vorskla Poltava as Croatia international Darijo Srna netted the only goal three minutes into the new half with a perfectly placed free-kick around the wall .
In the upset of the weekend Tavriya Simferopol shocked Metalurh Donetsk 4-1. After a Belarusian international Vladimir Karytska gave Donetsk the lead seven minutes in, Simferopol responded with four unanswered goals. Željko Ljubenović brought the match level twelve minutes later with the first of his two goals followed up with Olexander Kovpak winning strike six minutes before the half. Sasha Juričić added an insurance goal with twelve minutes remaining with Ljubenović second of the match four minutes later.
Oleh Anatolievych Lutkov's Metalurh Zaporizhya overcame Lviv 2-1 with a last minute goal. Volodymyr Arzhanov opened the scoring for Zaporizhia fifteen minutes after the start before Vitaliy Romaniuk leveled the match with six minutes remaining in the half. Dmytro Nevmyvaka found the winning with a minute remaining on the clock.
Not to be outdone in exciting endings Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk defeated Karpaty Lviv 1-0 as Ukraine international Maksym Kalynychenko scored a minute into added time.
Zorya Luhansk defeated Chornomorets Odessa 2-1. Anatoliy Didenko gave Odessa lead just before the half hour but Junior evened the match eight minutes later. Promising defender Oleksiy Kurylov, who is likely to feature internationally soon scored the winner with eleven minutes left.
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih narrowly got by relegation concerned Kharkiv with Ervin Bulku's goal seven minutes into the half.
| Ukrainian Premier League | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA | P |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 21 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 53 | 13 | 55 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 32 | 13 | 43 |
| Metalist Kharkiv | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 18 | 38 |
| Metalurh Donetsk | 21 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 18 | 37 |
| Vorskla Poltava | 21 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 37 |
| Metalurh Zaporizhya | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 33 |
| Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 21 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 29 |
| Karpaty Lviv | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 27 | 23 | 28 |
| Zorya Luhansk | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 32 | 24 |
| Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 26 | 23 |
| Chornomorets Odessa | 21 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 24 | 27 | 20 |
| Tavriya Simferopol | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 25 | 33 | 20 |
| Arsenal Kyiv | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 23 | 20 |
| Lviv | 21 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 29 | 15 |
| Illichivets | 20 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 37 | 13 |
| Kharkiv | 21 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 30 | 12 |
