Ukrainian general threatens to destroy £2.7billion 'umbilical cord' bridge linking Russia to Crimea

A top Ukrainian general this week threatened to destroy a huge bridge that links Russia to the occupied Crimean peninsula using long-range Western weapons.

Major General Dmytro Marchenko said on Wednesday night that Kyiv considered the 745-foot Kerch bridge a legitimate military target in his country’s on-going war against Vladimir Putin’s invading forces.

Speaking to the the

 website, the general – who has been leading Ukraine’s defence of the Mykolaiv region in the south -…