Its central bank raised benchmark interest rates from 19.5 percent to 30 percent effective March 4. Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, lost nearly 70 percent of its value against the dollar in just a year. The GDP shrunk by 7 percent in 2014.
2015 Economic Crisis
CNN: Ukraine’s economy teeters towards collapse
This photo taken on February 26, 2015 in a destroyed children's playground at the entrance of the airport of Donetsk shows two Pro-Russian rebels tanks parked near a building occupied by the rebels.
