Disturbing photos show 5-year-old boy smoking & drinking a can of beer at a Russian playground

Is this how the act and confidence of terror begins?

This is not nice!.. Pictures of a five-year-old boy smoking a cigarette and drinking what appears to be a can of beer have shocked the world after it found its way online.

At first glance the photo looks like it could have been taken at any playground, with the youngster enjoying playing in a toy car, but a closer look makes it far from normal.

Taken by a passer-by in the Russian city of Tyumen, the child can be clearly seen lighting and then smoking a cigarette. Sprawling in the toy car, he also holds what looks like a can of beer.

The pictures were shared on social media, with the photographer adding a caption of: “I wonder if his parents are watching?”