Editors:
The AP is changing its style for the transliteration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyys name effective immediately.
Previously, the AP spelled the name with -iy at the end, Zelenskiy, in line with the spelling on an English-language webpage used by his campaign when he was running for office.
Since then, Zelenskyy has adopted a transliteration with the -yy ending to his name for official use. This also is the English-language spelling used by most governments and government organizations, including the U.S. government, the European Union and NATO.
In general, the AP rule is to use the name by which a person wishes to be known. In this instance, Zelenskyy wants to be known using the -yy ending to his name when transliterated into the Latin alphabet from Cyrillic. We recognize that other news organizations have simplified the spelling to Zelensky in their publications, but APs choice of Zelenskyy respects the presidents preferred spelling.
The AP
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