Disputes about the transcription

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Сообщение от Vivien

In the biography of the cities make Odessa, Kiev, Lviv, Mykolaiv, etc., and in the English version of need to write Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, because City of Ukrainian and foreign language should be written as heard in the state.

Vivian, yes, one more problem from the area of the same casuistry.

I am sure that it today is not correct. But in this case to argue as an amateur, so do not pretend to correctness.
First of all, you need to understand that this issue is not Ukrainian, and English (etc.) language. There is a longstanding established practice of writing geographical names in the territory of Ukraine, in different languages, dictionaries and enshrined in many international documents. And by the way, where Moscow is Moscow, and Kiev - Kiev (and incidentally, the newspaper The Times just called them).
That translation, which you outlined is essentially the neologism in English "And why do we need a neologism, which is not a native speaker will give a correct idea what yet question?
No names like Kyiv and so will not be recorded in dictionaries, in international instruments, yet these names are not explicitly refer to the respective towns, while native English speaker (this is their diocese!) Will not fix it by myself, I think there is no need invent something in a foreign language. This is the case when the spelling is regulated only on the basis of official documents. No variation. Absolutely dictionary norm.