Terrifying weapons cache found at bomb factory 'where ISIS jihadis plotted Russia attacks'
THESE images show the terrifying weapons cache found at a bomb making factory run by Islamic State (ISIS) who were "planning attacks across Russia".
7 ISIS members detained in Urals - Prepared terrorist acts in Moscow, St Petersburg
The militants had a bomb making factory with detonators, explosives, grenades and firearms and were plotting a high-profile attack.
The arrests were made after Police swooped on the group in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, 100 miles from the border with Kazakstan.
FSB agents had received intelligence the jihadis they were planning to strike the Russian capital Moscow.
Terrifying images of the weapons cache found in Moscow
The group included Russian nationals and citizens of Central Asian states, who were also planning attacks in the Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, the FSB said.
They were led by an ISIS fighter who had arrived from Turkey, the FSB said, giving no further detail.
Russian security experts have warned that the country is facing a "substantial" threat from homegrown extremists, with the potential for tens of thousands of radicalised Muslims to be living within its borders.
One of the devices found at the bomb making factory
Igor Sutyagin, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said the war in Syria, state oppression of religious minorities and high youth unemployment had combined to create the "perfect" conditions for radicalisation.
Last month, three Russians were detained in connection with an Istanbul bomb blast.
The jihadis had been plotting attacks across Russia
Seven ISIS jihadis were arrested at the bomb making factory
Mr Sutyagin told Express.co.uk: "There is the threat [of homegrown extremists] because of the multinational structure of Russian society."
He added: "The Russian government provides the excuse and reason for people to get radicalised.
"It is not only involved in the Syrian war but it is suppressing its own Muslims in the country."
Yekaterinburg in the Urals, 100 miles from the border with Kazakstan
A map showing Yekaterinburg circled in red
Mr Sutyagin, who has written extensively on nuclear and conventional arms control, also blamed conflicts in Chechnya for the problem of radicalisation.
And he said an unemployment rate of more than 80 per cent amongst young people in the north Caucuses - which border Georgia and Azerbaijan - was leading to "terrorist activity".