From UNIAN:
"Kyiv not Kiev: Ukraine envoy praises switch by Bucharest Airport"
Ukrainian authorities have been pushing for the correct spelling of the capital city by air carriers and airport operators across the world. Romania's main airport has turned down the long-obsolete spelling of the capital of Ukraine that was derived from Russian, switching to a correct spelling, that is, "Kyiv."“Today, the Bucharest Henri Coanda Airport has switched to the correct spelling of the name of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. I am grateful to the Administration for their cooperation and support!” Ukrainian Ambassador to Romania Oleksandr Bankov wrote on Facebook.Recently, the same move was taken by airport administrations in Budapest, Istanbul, Tallinn, and Vilnius. UNIAN memo. When Ukraine was as part of the USSR, the name of its capital in the English-language media was delivered in a manner that corresponded to the Russian pronunciation, that is, Kiev. The Ukrainian authorities now insist that the name of the city be spelled the Ukrainian way, that is, Kyiv. On October 2, 2018, the Foreign Ministry, together with StratCom Ukraine Center for Strategic Communications, launched the "#CorrectUA" campaign, within which the team turn to foreign media to correct the spelling of Kiev (#KyivNotKiev).
^ Think of it this way: If Washington, District of Columbia was spelt around the world as: Washington, Distrito de Columbia. Using the Spanish version instead of the English version. Both English and Spanish use the same Latin Alphabet, but are not the same language. It's the same with this. Ukrainian and Russian use the same Cyrillic Alphabet, but are not the same language. The Ukrainian capital is spelt: Kyiv (Київ in Ukrainian) and Kiev (Киев in Russian.) The Russian Language doesn't even have the letter "ї" that Ukrainian does. ^
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