Latvia PM Evika Silina resigns after handling of Ukrainian drones on their soil (opens in new tab)

Latvia's Prime Minister Evika Silina has announced her resignation, months before the next elections were scheduled for October. It comes after the failure of the Latvian army to detect two stray Ukrainian drones, who crashed last week into a Latvian soil, an oil storage facility. As a result of the impacts, Silina fired the Defence Minister, Andris Spruds, blaming him for not developed better anti-drone systems. The Progressives party, part of the coalition that rules Latvian Parliament and ...