Everything we know about missing Brit toddler Oliver Pugh in Spain after latest update

A British toddler has vanished from Marbella, Spain, and has not been seen by his father since July 4. Oliver Pugh, 3, has blonde hair, grey eyes, and was reported missing by his dad more than a month later.

Oliver and his dad are British citizens living in the popular resort in the Costa Del Sol, and his mother is Russian. His parents are separated, and the case is being treated as "parental abduction".

A court order prevents Oliver's mum from taking the sweet toddler out of Spain, but there are worries that she might have travelled to her native Russia with the young boy, where it would be incredibly difficult to get him back.

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The identities of Oliver's mum and dad have not been released by the Spanish police, and it is not clear what the exact circumstances of their custody arrangement were before the kidnapping, or why his dad took so long to officially report him missing.

A source explained: "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."

In the latest update issued by the authorities at the end of August, they said: "The youngster and his father are British, and the mother is Russian, based in Marbella. 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."

If Oliver has already been taken to Russia by his mother, it would be hard for the Spanish or UK government to force the little boy to be returned. There are no formal extradition treaties between Russia and either country, and even if Spain declared the mother a fugitive and request she be extradited, the chances are slim that the Kremlin would go along with it.

Tensions between the UK government and Moscow are high and have been increasing in recent years. The fact that Oliver is a British citizen makes it even less likely that Putin's government would be inclined to be compliant.

So much so that Russian state media has already vowed to "protect" Oliver's mother if she has taken him to her native country, and said Oliver is as much Russian as he is British.

"It is suspected that she [the mother] took her son to Russia. This, of course, is not yet a fact," said Kremlin-funded Russian state propaganda media columnist Vladimir Kornilov on his Telegram channel.

“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?"

"How [do] you determine that the boy is British if his mother might think otherwise?"

A missing persons alert 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 and weighs 15kg."

The Foreign Office is "supporting the family of a British child who has been reported missing in Spain".