German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has assured NATO partner Latvia during a visit to the Baltic state of Germany’s military support. “The security of the Baltic States is our security,” the minister said on Tuesday at the Latvian Air Force base in the town of Lielvārde. There he was informed about the deployment of German […]
Latvian President Egils Rinkēvičs has shared memories about his night in Kyiv on the night of 23-24 February 2022, when he was in Ukraine as Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs along with other Baltic counterparts. Source: Rinkēvičs in an interview with online Latvian newspaper Nra.lv, as reported by European Pravda Details: Rinkēvičs, who was Latvian […]
The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has proposed investigating the relationships of employees in the governing structures of Latvia’s largest companies with Russia, Belarus, and other countries that support aggression against Ukraine. Source: European Pravda with reference to the Latvian Foreign Ministry Details: The Ministry proposes to investigate whether there are citizens of Russia, Belarus, […]
While membership in NATO and the European Union provides “the best security guarantees in the world,” Riga still needs to take “real measures” to counter the threat from Russia, Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs said at the Davos Ukrainian Breakfast on Jan. 18. European countries should be prepared for hybrid warfare, Rinkēvičs warned participants, highlighting how […]
The speaker of the Latvian parliament, Daiga Mieriņa, made her first visit to Ukraine on Jan. 16, the Ukrainian parliament’s press service announced on Facebook. “This visit will even strengthen the friendly alliance between our countries and parliaments,” Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Olena Kondratiuk said. No mention was made of the reason for […]
Lithuania has prepared the next military aid package for Ukraine, which will include howitzers, artillery shells, anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems. Source: Edgars Rinkēvičs, President of Latvia, at a joint briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to Riga, as reported by European Pravda Details: Rinkēvičs noted that the package had been compiled based […]
Krišjānis Kariņš, Latvian Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister, believes that the West needs to develop a long-term strategy to deter Russia, regardless of the outcome of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Source: European Pravda; Krišjānis Kariņš in an interview for Financial Times Details: The Latvian foreign minister explained that Russia has an “imperialistic-fuelled ideology”, […]
Latvia‘s Administrative District Court has granted asylum to a Russian citizen who fought on the side of Ukraine, the Latvian outlet Delfi reported on Jan. 2, overturning a Citizenship and Migration Affairs Office (PMLP) decision, which denied him the status last August. The man, who was born in Latvia but has lived in Ukraine since […]
An administrative district court in Latvia ordered to grant asylum to a Russian citizen who fought for Ukraine in 2014, the Delfi news outlet reported on Jan. 2. A number of Russian citizens have sought asylum in the Baltic country on the grounds that they oppose Moscow’s war against Ukraine. The man applied for refugee […]
People try to secure their car as Russia stages another rocket attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on December 11, 2023. The country with the highest drunk driving rate in Europe has been sending confiscated cars to Ukraine to help in the war effort against Russia for over a year now and, by Christmas Eve, the […]