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Ukraine’s National Hockey team trains for the Ice Hockey World Championship (PHOTOS)

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A member of Ukraine's national hockey team emerges from the locker room to the ice rink at Palats Sportu in Kyiv before team's training session on April 18.
Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

On April 18, Ukraine’s National Hockey team held an open training session at Kyiv’s Palats Sportu which is to host the IIHF World Hockey Championships Division 1A starting April 22. Ukraine will will battle teams from Austria, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Poland, and South Korea in an attempt to earn one of two spots in the elite World Hockey Championships in Denmark next year. Kyiv was awarded the tournament after Donetsk had to withdraw as host of the 2015 event due to the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.

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