Reminiscent of changing the collective English world's spelling of Kiev to Kyiv when both are just approximations of the real pronunciation, lol.
One of the main reasons for the conscious effort to shift spelling is the fact that Russia is trying to invade Ukraine partly on the basis that Ukraine wasn't actually a real country and Ukrainians are just Russians. In that context, using Russian place names over Ukrainian place names for Ukrainian localities can be seen as a tacit endorsement of this claim, and this is why so many entities are consciously making efforts to use translation from Ukrainian, rather than Russia. (Although I, and apparently many others, seem to have to a hard time with "Odesa/Odessa").
That Western Europe heard the name of a city from Russians first rather from its inhabitants is no different.