Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics has asked opposition lawmaker Andris Kulbergs to form a new government after Prime Minister Evika Silina resigned on Thursday following the collapse of her ruling coalition. The crisis was triggered by two Ukrainian drones that strayed into Latvia from Russian airspace and struck an oil storage facility in the country's east on 7 May, prompting Silina to sack Defence Minister Andris Spruds — a move that caused her coalition partner, The Progressives party, to withdraw its support and leave her without a parliamentary majority. Kulbergs, a 46-year-old former businessman who leads the United List bloc (the largest opposition grouping in Latvia's 100-seat parliament), said he hopes to assemble an "enlarged coalition" to govern until scheduled elections on 3 October, and has been given ten days by the president to do so — though any cabinet he forms must still be approved by parliament.