The issue focused on the Central Bank of Ukraine's decision to print dollars in October as a means of facilitating loans to its banks. In this case, the decision to print dollars has been denounced as an attempt to devalue the currency. The initiative also elicited the expected international response to foreign speculators buying the currency to dump the currency on the market. If this is such a big threat to the Ukrainian economy, one should expect the Western sanctions to be strong and even more targeted at the executives of Russian and Ukrainian