Boris Johnson’s government has been warned Russia will “hit the target” of any foreign warship testing its territorial claims in waters off Crimea, following a tense maritime confrontation in the Black Sea.

In its first public response since the incident, the Kremlin described the operation by HMS Defender as a “deliberate act of provocation”.

Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) denied Russia had fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of the HMS Defender to chase it away from the Crimean coastline.

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