Mazepa's portrait is found on the 10 hryvnia (Ukrainian currency) bill.

The hryvnia sign (₴) is a currency sign used for the Ukrainian hryvnia currency from 1992.

The Ukrainian currency, the karbovanets, is now trading at more than 100,000 to the dollar, compared with its initial rate three years ago of 200 to the dollar.

He has been planning the introduction of a Ukrainian currency, the grivnia, within six months.

Previously they had been receiving 40,000 coupons, or $12.50, a month, paid in the rapidly depreciating Ukrainian currency.

Officials are trying to produce the first Ukrainian currency.

Perhaps the most revealing complaint associated with the Western misunderstanding of Ukraine involves its plan to replace the ruble with the hryvna, the new Ukrainian currency.

Ukrainian karbovanets, the former Ukrainian currency.

Other items in their 18-point agreement included transferring to Ukraine a part of the ex-Soviet property abroad, and a mechanism for the introduction of Ukrainian currency.

On the sensitive issue of a Ukrainian national currency, the new Prime Minister said he was "categorically against" introducing the hryvnia anytime soon.