Riga

As he walked across a big new terminal in the Latvian capital Riga, he also cited cultural issues.

At Belfast Magistrates' Court, 58-year-old Glen Kane of Riga Street in the city was charged with possessing written material intended or likely to stir up hatred or arouse fear.

The match, which was moved to Riga because of the ongoing war in Gaza, went ahead despite Basketball Ireland facing pressure to boycott the fixture.

“If Ukraine were given seven such systems today, people in Kharkiv, Kherson, and Odessa would not be dying,” Mr. Zelensky said during a news conference in Riga, Latvia’s capital, on Thursday.

“He is afraid to give up power,” Dmitry Oreshkin, a political analyst and professor at Free University of Riga, Latvia, told The Associated Press this year.