The statement below was released by the New York-based National Office of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America on July 16.
Following the launch of an advocacy campaign in 2018, over 63 airports worldwide as well major media organizations such as the BBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times adopted the use of the Ukrainian transliteration “Kyiv” for the capital of Ukraine. In 2019, the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States announced that the United States Board on Geographic Names had also adopted the Ukrainian language-based spelling of Kyiv at the request of the Embassy, the United States Department of State, the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus and the largest representation of Ukrainians in America, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA).