Russian media has waded into a row over a missing British boy feared kidnapped by his Russian mother.

A state media pundit has declared 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.

Kremlin-funded Russian state propaganda media columnist Vladimir Kornilov said today 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

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