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Russia has deployed more than 1,500 drones in the last two days, according to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Latvian prime minister Evika Siliņa has announced her intention to resign from the post after her coalition partners, the Progressives, refused to support her dismissal of the country’s defence minister, Andris Sprūds, over a recent drone incident (Europe Live last week).

Siliņa was frustrated with the response to the incident, and late alerts for local population. The Progressives declined to back the replacement minister, Raivis Melnis, and said they effectively no longer supported the prime minister, leaving her with no majority in the parliament.