MOSCOW has weighed in on the case of a missing British three-year-old amid fears the child has been "kidnapped" by his Russian mother.

A pundit on the country's state media said the kid is "Russian" and demanded the Kremlin "protect the mother’s right" to be with her child.

Oliver Pugh has been the subject of a frantic police search since he went missing in Marbella, on the Costa del Sol.

He has a British father and a Russian mother, who are now separated.

The family lived in Spain, where are court order had barred the child from being removed from the country.

Spanish cops fear Oliver was taken to Russia - where he would be out of reach of the father.

Russian authorities have not officially commented on whether the child is in the country.

But state media propagandist Vladimir Korn

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