Ukraine has threatened to launch an airstrike on Russia’s £2.7 billion bridge to Crimea, the largest structure of its kind in Europe and of strategic importance to the Putin regime.

The bridge, which links southern Russia to the annexed peninsula, was opened by Vladimir Putin in 2018 to condemnation from the West.

Oleksiy Danilov, chairman of the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council, said Russia has been using the 12-mile (19-kilometre) bridge spanning the Strait of Kerch to send troops and weapons from Russia into Crimea and then into southern Ukraine.

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“It would be good if our partners could provide us with something that we could use to reach (the bridge),” he told the NV radio station. “It would solve a lot of issues for us.”

Mr Putin’s spokesman on Thursday described Mr Danilov’s remarks as “nothing short of an announcement of an upcoming terrorist attack.”

Read more: The Telegraph