{"id":583649,"date":"2026-05-14T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:52:08","slug":"latvian-prime-minister-quits-after-backlash-over-stray-ukrainian-drone-strikes-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583649\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian prime minister quits after backlash over stray Ukrainian drone strikes \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sili\u0146a then appointed Latvian army Col. Raivis Melnis as a replacement, but the Progressives\u2019 withdrawal left Sili\u0146a\u2019s New Unity alliance without a parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n

Latvia, like its Baltic neighbors Estonia and Lithuania, has been on high alert since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, warning that spillovers from the war could test NATO\u2019s eastern flank.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment, political jealousy and narrow party interests have taken precedence over responsibility,\u201d Silina said Thursday, adding that \u201cpolitical windbags chose not a solution, but a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Latvian President Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds previously said<\/a> he would meet with all parliamentary parties on Friday, \u201cgiven the political situation of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sili\u0146a then appointed Latvian army Col. Raivis Melnis as a replacement, but the Progressives\u2019 withdrawal left Sili\u0146a\u2019s New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[459,142,199433,461,199434,49,52806,50,2987,154,51,47,52,48,161],"class_list":["post-583649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crisis","tag-drones","tag-edgars-rinkevics","tag-elections","tag-evika-silina","tag-headlines","tag-latvia","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-russia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}