evidence: Often these are older phones, already used by the soldier or some relative, or donated by a supportive citizen volunteer. Perhaps it is a brand-new phone from cheaper Chinese and South Korean manufacturers bought at a shining technology store in Kyiv or a regional capital, with an explicit purpose as the soldier’s communication "war horse" that will carry the burden of many information-related tasks. Sometimes it may be bought at a tiny, crammed phone store, a sort of kiosk selling new and used devices, in the midst of a bazaar in the soldier’s hometown or a similar tiny town in the vicinity of the front. [...] Soldiers used phones to watch films and series, play games (such as mobile versions of chess that could also be played as a boardgame, pictured in Fig. 9), listen to music, watch TV and receive news on the frontline. This was also stimulated by the systematic TV signal jamming from the Russian side (reportedly up to 15 km deep). Poor connection stimulated use of torrents that allow downloading about one hour worth of content a day even with unstable connection.