Dear aka John E McLaughlin It is spelled as Kyiv in English language because 1 Ukrainian government insists on Kyiv spelling 2 The State Department of the U S issued a directive to write Kyiv 3 The Prime Minister of the U K calls the city Kyiv 4 United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database the ultimate body on geographical names approved it as Kyiv 5 Major English speaking governments worldwide switched to Kyiv spelling 6 CIA refers to the city as Kyiv 7 The name of the famous football club is Dynamo Kyiv 8 Many papers e g British The Guardian are already writing Kyiv 9 All major Canadian media already use the spelling of Kyiv 10 and many more reasons