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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