Plug Your Podcast is an ongoing segment where we introduce you to some of the people in and out of our area producing new and specialized audio content. Former NPR Morning Edition producer Ashley Westerman got her start right here at WUKY as a student reporter. She now works as a freelancer and has just returned from her latest project, a 20-episode podcast series called Ukraine Stories, from FEARLESS Media - where she worked alongside former NPR journalists Kelly McEvers, Tonya Mosley and host David Greene to cover the war in Ukraine one person at a time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ground invasion of Ukraine is an old school strategy being employed in a new world — one that’s highly connected, economically and digitally, and able to marshal modernized methods of retaliation.

With the help of a Kentucky priest, a Ukrainian born shop owner who came to this country as a refugee herself, is giving back to those in her homeland who are trapped by war. Karyn Czar reports.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell believes there should be swift and severe consequences against Russia by the U.S. and their allies for what he calls a clear invasion of Ukraine. WUKY’s Karyn Czar reports.