Ukraine

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is making the case for more U.S. investment to help Ukraine defeat Russia. The Louisville Republican held a closed meeting on Tuesday with members of the Knox Regional Development Authority in Elizabethtown.

Soldiers stationed in Fort Campbell are preparing to deploy to Europe to replace forces ordered overseas earlier this year. Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby made the announcement on Friday. He said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III ordered the deployment of around 10,500 personnel — including around 4,700 from Fort Campbell — in the coming months to replace Army units ordered to the region because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

At the end of March, the average price for a gallon of gas in Kentucky was just below $4 dollars. Prices are above $4 a gallon in and around the state’s largest city, Louisville. Although gas is slightly cheaper in some rural areas by about 10 to 20 cents, that’s not the case in Owsley County and surrounding areas. It isn’t near any major interstates and also has one of the highest poverty rates in Kentucky.

Some western Kentucky commerce and shipping companies are feeling the squeeze of spiking fuel prices and inflation caused by the pandemic and more recently by the crude oil market disruptions created by the Russian war in Ukraine.

Though they’re about 5,000 miles apart, Appalachia has a lot in common with Ukraine, especially the rugged Carpathian Mountains in the western side of the country.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan was in part to blame for the Russia's invasion into Ukraine.

Several hundred soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell are deploying to Europe starting Tuesday night in anticipation of a potential Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The announcement

Nearly $400 million in security assistance to Ukraine was put on hold this past summer. Exactly how and when those events unfolded has been unclear. The date may prove the freeze violated a 1974 act.

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin said Friday he would accept help from a foreign government to investigate corruption regardless of whether or not it involved…

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said he believes the whistleblower, who filed a complaint alleging President Trump in a phone call asked the President of Ukraine to…