At the team world championship, the Ukrainian chess team, which is the current champion of this tournament, will compete with its full fighting lineup. The team includes the same six chess players who won four years ago at the world championship. They are Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov, Andriy Volokitin, Oleksandr Moiseienko, Pavlo Elianov and Serhiy Karjakin. The coach of the Ukrainian team at this tournament will be Volodymyr Tukmakov and the team captain will be Leonid Tymoshenko. The 2005 Ukrainian champion Oleksandr Areshchenko made it onto the team as a reserve.
It should be noted that back in mid-summer, the Ukrainian team's participation in the world championship with its strongest lineup was in question. At that time, six "national team members" (Karjakin, Ponomariov, Elianov and Moiseienko) held a press conference in Kyiv and announced that they would not play for the Ukrainian national team in Israel if the Chess Federation of Ukraine did not pay them fees and did not finance training camps. However, just before the championship, the "rebels" changed their minds…