“From the bombing of civilian infrastructure to violence, executions, torture. Women, girls, even men and boys have been documented to be subjected to sexual violence while in the custody of Russian forces,” Ms Nestor added
One type of such kit are handheld 3D scanners which help the teams to obtain physical proof before it is contaminated or destroyed. Artyom Yukhin, the CEO of Artec 3D, which has donated 30 scanners in collaboration with the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence, said the forensic experts were “sleeping on the tables in their office, they’re working around the clock. And it’s terrible work because, I don’t know, they have thousands of corpses in terrible conditions that were not in the refrigerators even, and they need to identify them somehow. And they have every day, even in Kyiv, they have all these new incidents.
The donated Artec Leo 3D scanners, which have only been in use by the KFI for a couple of months, will enable even more to be documented.
🔴 Nataliia Nestor, deputy director of the 400-strong Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, told her team were at times exposed to life-threatening military equipment as they worked to record violations of international law