The Russian team beat Switzerland at the World Hockey Championship

The Russian national team outplayed the Switzerland team in the match of the next round of the preliminary stage of the World Hockey Championship, which takes place these days in Riga.

The meeting of Group A ended with a score of 4: 1 in favor of the Russians, in whom Anton Burdasov (36 '), Pavel Karnaukhov (51') and Sergey Tolchinsky (53 ', 60'). In the Swiss, the puck was abandoned by Niko Hishir (49 ').

The Russian team scored 12 points and temporarily solely headed the standings . The Swiss had 9 points left. The same is the same Slovakia, which has a game in stock.

At the preliminary stage of the domestic ice squad, it remains to play on May 31 with Sweden and June 1 with Belarus. Four best teams of each of the groups enter the playoffs.

Meanwhile, in one of the other matches of the day, the national team of Kazakhstan defeated Italians with a score of 11: 3 and headed the table of group V.

The Kazakhstan team led by Yuri Mikhailis in this match won the largest victory in the highest division of the world championship in its history and abandoned the largest number of goals.