My entire life, whther while i was living in Japan, Germany, or the US, the spelling of Kiev and the pronunciation of it has remained constant. I know the locals will have different spellings and pronunciations just like cities and personal names throughout the world, but this has completely changed in the West over thw last few weeks. Now its Kyiv (Keev) vs Kee-ehv.
I know this seems small or trivial, but this is extremely fishy to me.
And now Russia is "the oppressor", so it is imperative to support the oppressed Ukrainians by changing how the name of their capital city is spelled.
The problem is that regardless of how the name of the city is spelled, English speakers are going to butcher the pronunciation because our mouths just don't work like Ukrainian or Russian mouths.