The Blue-and-Yellows suffered a crushing defeat with a score of 2:8 and lost their chances of fighting for first place and promotion to Division 1A.

Vitaliy Lyalka and Oleksiy Vorona scored goals for the Ukrainian national team.

The only pass to division 1A (the second strongest in world hockey) will go to the winner of the world championship in Tichy. After three rounds, Ukraine scored 4 points and is in 3rd place. Japan is in the lead - 9 points.

World Championship Division 1B Japan - Ukraine 8:2 (3:0, 3:2, 2:0) Washers: 1:0 - Furugashi (Miura, Galliday), 04:19. 2:

0 - Minoshima, 04:52. 3:0 - Furugashi, 09:08. 4:0 - Suzuki (Furugashi, Minoshima, - more. ), 20:24. 4:1 - Doll (Merezhko, Korenchuk), 25:06. 5:1 - Nakayashiki, 31:42. 5:2 - Crow (Andreikov, Litvinov), 34:40. 6:2 - Gitosato (Girano), 39:56. 7:2 - Gitosato (Girano), 44:09. 8:2 - Girano (Nakajima, Gitosato), 59:59 The Ukrainian national team will play the final match at the world championship on Sunday, May 1 against Estonia. Start - at 21:00.

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