Kremlin backed state media has vowed that they will “protect” the 3-year-old British toddler who was “abducted” by his Russian mother in Spain.
Russian state propaganda media columnist Vladimir Kornilov said the boy is “Russian” and he is calling on the Kremlin to “do everything possible” to “protect the mother’s right.”
The British boy has been named as Oliver Pugh and the Spanish National Police have launched a hunt for the toddler.
The Spanish police believe that the mother took her son illegally “back to her home country,” Russia.
Spanish National Police do not know where the boy is and an “investigation is ongoing.”
Oliver has grey eyes, blonde hair and he is just under three feet tall, police confirmed the father is British and the mother is a Russian citizen.
Kornilov said on his Telegram channel, “It is suspected that she [the mother] took her son to Russia. This, of course, is not yet a fact.
“But if this is indeed the case, it seems to me that we must do everything possible to protect the mother’s right to be with her Russian child! Well, if London can call him British, why can’t I call him Russian by the same logic?”
He asked: “How [do] you determine that the boy is British if his mother might think otherwise?”
The Russian authorities have not provided any statement nor confirmed the boy is or is not in Russia.
A police spokesperson said, “We are treating this as a parental abduction. We believe the mother has left Spain and has taken the boy to her homeland which is Russia.”
A source said, “The mum and dad are separated and there was a court order preventing the mother from taking this boy out of Spain. They are all based here on the Costa del Sol.”
Spain’s National Missing Persons Centre (CNDES), said, “Oliver disappeared on July 4, 2025. His date of birth is November 3, 2021. He was three when he disappeared.
“The place he disappeared from is Marbella in the province of Malaga. He has grey eyes, blonde hair, stands 85 centimetres tall [2.75ft] and weighs 15 kilos [2.36st].”
A Foreign Office spokesman said, “We are supporting the family of a British child who has been reported missing in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.”
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