The national team of Ukraine lost to South Korea in shootouts in the fifth round of the home world championship in hockey.

Ukrainian hockey players before this fight lost four games and flew out of the first division, so the meeting with South Korea no longer had a tournament value for the wards of Alexander Savitsky.

South Korea - Ukraine - 2: 1 (on shootouts) (0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 0) Washers: 24:59 Zhin Hu An (Vusang Park) - 1: 0; 33:

24 Babinets - 1: 1.

Decisive shootout: Sangguo Shin.

Recall that in the tournament involved 6 teams, 2 of which in the next year will play in the elite division at the 2018 World Cup in Denmark. In the elite of the world hockey eventually came the Austrians, who defeated Poland, and the second trip was won by South Korea due to the victory over the Ukrainians.

Earlier, the Ukrainian team lost to the teams of Hungary, Poland, Austria and Kazakhstan.