LONDON, November 20. /TASS/. British soldiers involved in military exercises in Poland were were not allowed to take gadgets with them because they could be targeted by Russian cyber spies, as reported by the British Telegraph edition.

The newspaper mentions that the military drills in Poland are the most large-scale exercises in Eastern Europe since 2008.

Britain’s security services and military intelligence experts have decided troops’ laptops, smartphones and electronic devices could be targets for Russian intelligence agencies, or state-sponsored criminal hackers, states the newspaper.