The last time Ukraine experienced hyperinflation was in the early 1990s when the re-issued country was figuring out what a market economy was after decades of communist suppression. Then intrepid entrepreneurs grabbed assets on the cheap and built billion dollar fortunes.
2015 Economic Crisis
Forbes: Cost of war on Ukraine’s billionaires and the country
Residents walk past a crater left by shelling near Lenin square in Debaltseve on March 2, 2015.