Eucranians are using mobile apps to fight back from their phones.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

This week marks a year since Russia began its devastating invasion of Ukraine.

And we've been looking back at how technology has shaped the conflict.

From satellites, beaming internet service, from space to the mobile phones in people's

pockets, Roman Osuchuk is a research associate at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic

Research Lab.

He's also based in Ukraine.

He said mobile apps have become an essential lifeline there as citizens navigate the daily

realities of war.

So if we take a look into some things like airy alerts, so we have plenty of apps that

would actually notify you when this is happening.

Or some old apps that were just for, I know, some local seating use.

They help people who lost all of their belongings, including their documents.

People could also apply for the help from the government if they lost some property or

they lost their job because a war they could do that through the apps.

Yeah, I was looking at the list of the most commonly downloaded apps and I saw a number

of them were sort of these dedicated air raid alert apps.

How do those work?

So they are basically monitor what local authorities say and when the local authorities launch

those sirens because there is like a physical signal on the city street.

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