The money used in Ukraine is called the hryvnia, pronounced 'her-iv-nee-a. This is its sign:
Get the hryvnia sign through Unicode by using the numeric keypad on your keyboard and type ALT+20B4
The money itself looks like this in notes:
There is also paper money in the following denominations: 2, 20, 100, 500.
Coins in denominations between 1 and 50 are called kopecks
but there is also a 1 hryvnia coin
The hryvnia has been the national currency of the Ukraine from September 1996 but recent tensions with Russia caused it to devalue reaching a five-year low in February 2014 which has stunted economic growth this year.