"You have about five seconds to leave your position and run when you hear a drone. That's how quickly the rocket will land."
According to new evidence, mobile networks are now being used as a weapon of war in the current battle, with each side tracking soldiers' phones.
On the battlefield, how are phones tracked? When the simulators connect to them, some systems may be able to immediately detect the phone's location, for example by accessing the phone's internal GPS system.
Regardless of the technology used - the finer details are highly guarded military secrets - they all result in the enemy acquiring a pretty accurate position of whoever is using the phone.
The Russians are believed to be employing the Leer-3 electronic warfare system, which consists of two drones and a command vehicle, to find Ukrainian forces in Ukraine.
Within a 3.7-mile range, this device can pick up over 2,000 phones, potentially allowing for the detection of a slew of enemy positions.
Similar technology is thought to be used by Ukrainian soldiers. According to the New York Times, at least one Russian general was slain after a phone call he made was intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence in mid-March.
According to experts at Copenhagen University, the presence of these electronic warfare weapons has made ringing home "the digital equivalent of carelessly burning a cigarette late at night."
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