'Never Stop Panicking': Latvian President Urges Critical Assessment of Public Information

After the Munich Security Conference, Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs published a concise statement on the international situation. This forced him to explain what he meant.

On 17 February, in the evening, the Latvian president wrote a short post on X: ‘Never stop panicking’.

This provoked a variety of reactions from social media users, including a lack of understanding of what the Latvian president meant.

When asked to explain the post, presidential communications adviser Martins Dregeris told Delfi that Rinkēvičs' post was “a reflection on the international situation after the statements of many foreign policy researchers and various rumours that have emerged since the Munich conference”.

‘The President calls for a critical analysis and assessment of the information that is being disseminated,’ he said.

Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron initiated an emergency summit after US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said that the US does not see Europe at the table to end the Russian-Ukrainian war.

On 18 February, negotiations between the US and Russian delegations on a peaceful settlement in Ukraine began in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would not take part in them.