Ukraine Commemorative Notes and Coins

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has unveiled a commemorative banknote to mark the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

One side of the vertically orientated note depicts three soldiers raising the national flag. The other features an image of two hands tied with tape, an allusion to alleged war crimes Kyiv has accused Russian forces of committing in Ukraine.

The NBU will place 300,000 of the commemorative notes into circulation. It took eight months to design and produce the notes, which incorporate SPARK®, an embedded thread, a 12mm wide optically variable stripe and an iridescent feature.

According to the NBU, it plans a series of commemorative notes to provide a visual record of the war, and is already planning new notes to commemorate victory and Ukraine’s reconstruction.