Ukrainian uses a form of the Cyrillic alphabet, which is very similar to the alphabet used for Russian. Think of the small differences between the alphabets used in Spanish and Portuguese ...

So why all the y's? The short answer is: They're duct tape. Ukrainian and Russian are written with versions of the Cyrillic alphabet, which has letters for things our Latin alphabet doesn't.

There simply isn’t a clear and definitive way to render the Ukrainian President’s last name through our alphabet, which leads to the variety of spellings you see. Zelensky himself has it spell ...

reading and writing in the Cyrillic alphabet. “This war has truly changed everything,” said Jarosław Junko, the coordinator of PAP’s Ukrainian and Russian language services. Junko is fluent in ...