Everything you need to know about visiting Kyiv : attractions, hotels, restaurants, transport and more. Kyiv (not Kiev!) is a modern city, home to hundreds of successful startups, cultural events and cool venues to meet your every need! Kyiv Post Delivers Exclusive and In-Depth News and Opinions on Politics, Economics – Get Your Daily News Brief Direct from Ukraine Today! Kyiv (/kiːv/ KEEV), or Kiev (/ˈkiːɛv/ KEE-ev) Ukrainian: Київ, romanized: Kyiv , pronounced [ˈkɪjiu̯], the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. Founded in the fifth or sixth century as a trading post, it acquired eminence in the tenth to twelfth centuries a capital of Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1240, it was a provincial capital of marginal importance ...