French President Emmanuel Macron greets Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2025. Silina resigned Wednesday. File Photo by Maya Vidon-White/UPI | License Photo
May 14 (UPI) -- Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina resigned Wednesday after a political battle stemming from Ukrainian drones breaching Latvia's airspace.
Silina fired Defense Minister Andris Spruds last week because two drones crashed into eastern Latvia on May 7, causing some damage but no casualties. She criticized Spruds' response to the event and appointed a replacement.
But Spruds is a member of the Progressives party, which was in coalition with Silina's center-right Unity Party. In protest, the Progressives pulled their allegiance from the coalition, leaving Silina without a majority in Parliament.
"Seeing a strong candidate for the post of defense minister ... political windbags have chosen a crisis," the BBC reported Silina said Thursday. "I am resigning but I am not giving up."
