As Mint wrote, the FSB believes that Chinese intelligence systematically tries to recruit Russian scientists, engineers and officers, as well as **analyzes the movements of Russian troops in Ukraine** to collect information on western weapons systems based on combat data. The paper warns against a increasing number of Chinese "fasads" – mining companies and academic institutes – operating in the Arctic and Siberia, which, in the opinion of the Russian counterintelligence, can collect the data needed for future territorial claims.
