BREAKING: Russian media vows to 'protect' suspect as Brit boy, 3, 'abducted' from Marbella

Russian media has waded into a row over a missing British boy feared 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.

He was last seen in Marbella on July 4, but his father only reported him missing more than a month later on August 7.

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Police have released details of who they believe snatched him, with detectives confirming the case was being treated as a "parental abduction", pointing the finger at his mother, a Russian national. Yesterday, police confirmed little Oliver and his father are both British citizens, while the mother is from Russia.

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