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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for July 6 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Brittney Griner’s wife finally received a call from President Joe Biden on Wednesday to talk about getting the WNBA superstar out of Russia, where she has been detained since February. Cherelle Griner and Biden spoke about the Phoenix Mercury player, the White House said in a release. Biden reassured Cherelle that the U.S. is "working to security Brittney’s release as soon as possible." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM WNBA basketball superstar Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow on July 1, 2022. - Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and WNBA champion, was detained at Moscow airport in February on charges of carrying in her luggage vape cartridges with cannabis oil, which could … [Read more...] about Biden reassures Brittney Griner’s wife US is working to secure her release from Russia ‘as soon as possible’

close Video Atrocity rocks Ukraine war coverage Russian missile devastates shopping mall. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! News emerged Wednesday on the six Belarusian soldiers who went missing in the Luhansk region late last month after they volunteered to fight for Ukraine against Russia, with reports confirming at least one had been killed and another captured. Soldiers from the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment, who pledged their allegiance to the Ukrainian armed forces in March, reportedly engaged in a deadly exchange with a Russian convoy June 26. Half of the patrol was able to escape the firefight, while the other half remained behind to hold off the Russian forces , Belarusian news outlet Nasha Niva first reported. Servicemen of Ukrainian Military Forces walk in the small town of Sievierodonetsk, Lugansk Oblast, Feb. 27, 2022. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images) UKRAINIANS BRACE FOR … [Read more...] about Russia confirms 6 Belarusian soldiers fighting for Ukraine captured or killed in Luhansk

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia redoubled its push for Ukraine's eastern Donbas region Wednesday, with the Ukrainian military claiming to have repelled some advances and both sides reporting casualties. The Ukrainian armed forces General Staff said troops stopped enemy units advancing towards Sloviansk, a city in Donetsk, one of two provinces in the Donbas whose capture is among Moscow’s main goals. It also claimed to have repelled Russian attacks on a town and village north of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, just miles (kilometers) from the Russian border. The Ukrainian presidential office said most civilian casualties were in Donetsk province, where Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said two people died in the city of Avdiivka; the cities of Sloviansk, Krasnohorivka and Kurakhove each reported one civilian killed. “Every crime will be punished,” he wrote on social media. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 … [Read more...] about Russia pounds rebel-claimed region, Ukraine pushes back

Russian officials have begun to issue a series of threats to the United States in an attempt to fend off a war crimes tribunal, with top officials suggesting that Russia could be interested in going after Alaska next, which the United States purchased from Russian in 1867. Russia’s lower house speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, warned the United States ought to hesitate when seizing or freezing Russian assets abroad, and instead ought to remember that Alaska previously belonged to Russia. “Let America always remember, there is a part of [Russian] territory: Alaska,” Volodin said , according to Hromadske. “So when they start trying to dispose of our resources abroad, before they do it, let them think: we also have something to return.” State Duma Vice Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy proposed holding a referendum in Alaska , Volodin said, according to RBC. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, took the threats even further, and hinted at nuclear escalation. … [Read more...] about Top Russian Official’s Crazed Threat: Alaska Takeover Could Be Next

Russian troops are hitting the bottle so hard that they're banned from buying alcohol in some regions of partly occupied territories in Ukraine, according to General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The soldiers are getting so drunk while trying to fight in the war in Ukraine that they’re causing serious incidents in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said. “This leads to numerous disciplinary violations and serious misdemeanors,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Wednesday. The drunken Russian troops’ excessive habit to enjoy a tipple is allegedly causing car accidents, firearm violations, and other incidents while intoxicated. In a somewhat incongruous move, the Russians are relying on a Santa Claus impersonator, Ivan Sushko, to fend off the wasted Russian troops from buying any alcohol—including beer—in Mykhailivska and Rozdol. Russian troops, though, have been raiding and grabbing assets from local … [Read more...] about Russian Troops’ Embarrassing Drunkfest in Ukraine Prompts Alcohol Bans

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka ’s president on Wednesday said he urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to help his cash-strapped island nation import fuel as it faces its worst economic crisis in seven decades. Short of foreign exchange because of economic mismanagement and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic , Sri Lanka has been struggling to import even essentials, leading to severe shortages of medicine, food and fuel. “Had a very productive telecon with the #Russia President, Vladimir Putin,” President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Twitter , adding that he had requested credit support from Russia to import fuel. Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics With its gas and diesel stocks nearly exhausted, Sri Lanka has extended a countrywide school shutdown and asked public employees to work from home . Sri Lanka has already bought oil from Russia to tide it over the crisis, and the government has indicated it is willing to make … [Read more...] about Sri Lanka president asks Russia’s Vladimir Putin to help import fuel