Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukasevich said on Wednesday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) video showing two alleged Russian spies gunned to death by a boy seems to be a staged event designed to provoke Moscow.

Lukasevich said the country's security services will analyze the video closely, although the Federal Security Service has declined to comment on the video. Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that the Russian embassy in Syria could not confirm if any FSB agents have been killed.

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Posted on YouTube on Wednesday, the video has gone viral, although it appears the original has been removed by the video sharing site. The video shows two men who confessed that they are Russian spies sent on an assignment.

The first man, Sergei Ashimov, claimed his task is to assassinate an ISIS commander, while the second man, Jambulat Mamayev from Kazakhstan, said he was ordered to infiltrate the ISIS and find more information about an ISIS commander and if there are Russian fighters in the region.

Two reasons why Russia believes that the video is just staged is the lack of bullet holes on the victims if viewed slow motion and absence of blood on the light gray clothes of the alleged spies.

The young gunman is named Abdullah, a young recruit from Kazakhstan whose ambition when he grows up is to kill infidels. He has been featured in previous ISIS videos of training camps.

Young fighters like Abdullah are called by the ISIS as the "cubs of the caliphate" since adult jihadists are called "lions" by the extremist group.

A Human Rights Watch report released in June, which documented the experiences of 25 young people and former child soldiers in Syria showed that some of those on the frontlines are as young as 15, while those 14 and below serve in support roles, reports CNN.

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