Prime Ministers go to Kyiv. Crazy, dangerous move

[Ranch_Dip]

@Johnny_Bravo

You sure about that?

They used to be when it was USSR, maybe not now. But my point that it is a different place still stands.

[Airbeck]

But it isn’t a different place. It’s the same city, and the west has always spelled it Kiev. In Ukrainian it’s Kyiv. Not two different places though.

[RitterSport]

“Always” minus a few years. I’ve seen it as Kyiv for several years now.

[Senegoid]

Ки́їв, not Киев

Offician Ukrainian campaign to spell it Kyiv in languages using the Latin alphabet:

KyivNotKiev

One of the objectives of the campaign was to convince international airports around the world to switch from Kiev to Kyiv . Previously, most airports refused to do so, saying that in lists of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) the name Kiev was specified. However, in October 2019, IATA, following the decision of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, switched to Kyiv . Since the campaign’s launch, 63 airports and 3 airlines worldwide (as of January 2020) have begun using the name Kyiv , even before this ‘Kyiv’ was adopted by IATA. Among them are Toronto Pearson, Luton, Manchester, Frankfurt, and Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat.[17]

In September 2020, the English Wikipedia switched from using Kiev to Kyiv.