Lithuanian ambassador to Sweden Linas Linkevicius and other “US lapdogs” will regret their “gaffes,” Russia’s deputy representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, has said in response to a veiled threat against the Crimean Bridge made by Linkevicius on social media on Saturday.

Linkevicius published a message on X (formerly Twitter), which featured three images: one of Russia’s Crimean Bridge, another captured the launch of what appeared to be a US-made ATACMS missile, and the third showing Russian President Vladimir Putin in a reflective mood. The caption under the images reads: “If someone hasn’t had a chance to take a photo at the Kerch bridge, it’s still time.”

The message by the ambassador of the Baltic nation – which is a member of NATO and the EU – came just days after White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed that the US had secretly delivered a “significant” number of ATACMS missiles, which have a range of up to 300km, to Ukraine. With his post, Linkevicius appears to imply that the long-range munitions could be used to attack the 19-kilometer-long Crimean Bridge.

Polyansky replied to the Lithuanian diplomat on X on Saturday, saying that “servile Baltic US lapdogs... rabidly bark now but they will pathetically whine later when the judgment day arrives.”

Linkevicius and others like him will eventually regret “all such gaffes,” he warned.