Over its history, Evening Kyiv has faced several threats from various governments, including a reduction in published issues at the height of Volodymyr Shcherbytsky's rule and efforts by mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi to influence editorial positions.

[3] This newfound status led the newspaper to include more ideologically-minded statements, and Evening Kyiv in this period has since been described as a "Soviet mouthpiece" by the United States-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

[5] From the 1960s until the 1980s, Soviet dissidents like Viacheslav Chornovil[6] and human rights activists such as Anna Procyk of Amnesty International were regularly condemned, with the latter being accused of being supported by Ukrainian nationalists and Zionists.

The Russophone edition gradually consumed a greater amount of Evening Kyiv's pressrun until 1989, when it reached a low of 130,000 in Ukrainian compared to 330,000 in Russian.

[3] At the beginning of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika reforms, Evening Kyiv remained close to the Soviet government position, continuing to publicly attack human rights activists such as Chornovil.

In 1990, Evening Kyiv was purchased by Vitalii Karpenko [uk], a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the anti-communist, pro-independence Democratic Bloc faction who was a journalist at the newspaper.

[12] On 22 December 2006, mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi announced the dismissal of Liudmyla Vorobiova, chief editor of Evening Kyiv, and her replacement with Svitlana Syniakova.

Kostrytsa justified his move by noting that the lease was to expire in July 2007, although the Institute for Mass Information argued that it was likely to be renewed due to the status of the newspaper as a communal enterprise.

In response to the attempted move of the newspaper, the editors' union voted to dismiss Kostrytsa, claiming that he had violated Article 45 of the Labour Code of Ukraine.

[11] In 2018, the newspaper's closure was announced by the Kyiv City Council after the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) passed the Draft Law on the Reformation of State and Communal Printed Media.

[17] With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Evening Kyiv acquired greater importance, and the number of articles published grew from 30 to 35 per day to 70–80.