Moscow has waded into the case of a missing British boy, three, amid fears the child has been 'kidnapped' by his Russian mother.
A state media pundit has declared that the boy is 'Russian' and demanded the Putin regime should 'do everything possible' to 'protect the mother's right' to be with the child.
Little Oliver Pugh is the subject of a major police search after going missing from Marbella, on the Costa del Sol. The boy has a British father and Russian mother, now separated.
The family had lived in Spain and a court order was in place banning the child being removed from the country.
Spanish police fear Oliver has been taken from Spain to Russia where he is out of reach of the boy's father.
