Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina announced her resignation on May 14. This action led to the collapse of the coalition government just a few months before the upcoming elections, scheduled for October.
I resigned, but I won't give up," Silina said in a televised statement.
This move comes after Defense Minister Andris Spruds, of the Progressives party, was dismissed for his handling of the Ukrainian UAV flying into Latvian airspace.
Last week, 2 Ukrainian long-range suicide UAVs flew into an abandoned oil depot near the town of Rezekne, about 40km from the Russian border. No casualties were recorded.
After the incident, Ms. Silina asked Mr. Spruds to resign on the grounds that the anti-UAV system was not deployed quickly enough to prevent the intrusion.
Ms. Silina believes that "political rivalry and narrow party interests" are the cause of the current crisis in Latvia.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha confirmed that the related UAVs belong to Ukraine and said that their entry into Latvia was due to "Russian electronic warfare". Ukraine is currently considering sending experts to support strengthening aviation security for the Baltic countries.
In March, Ukraine announced that intelligence information showed that Russia deliberately directed Kiev's UAV towards the Baltic countries and Finland in order to create tension.
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo also recently said that he had told President Volodymyr Zelensky that the invasion of Ukrainian UAVs of Finnish airspace was unacceptable.
Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur called on Ukraine to better control UAVs and prevent them from entering other countries' territories.
