British security services are vastly outgunned by the Russian counterintelligence threat

"The problem is that the NATO Very High Readiness [Joint Task] Forces are not enough to cope … the mobility, even if they will be there, they will be outnumbered six to one which is very serious," Sutyagin said. "Secondly, the forces, even if deployed have some structural deficiencies … the Western side might be unprepared to deal with these environments."