Private actors across Europe must pay peculiar attention to the threat of technological intelligence (WNT) from the Russian Federation, due to the fact that due to Western sanctions, its scale can even go to the ceiling known to date primarily for the activities of Chinese intelligence services. Businesses, factories and investigation and implementation centres can be placed on a kind of double target. Obtaining the effects of their work by Russian spies can be utilized to rapidly "burden" technological gaps in Russian weapons.