On November 12, 2022, it became known that Luxembourg provided Ukraine with 30 portable wireless Artec Leo 3D scanners (worth more than 1 million euros), high-precision calibration sets and 5-year licenses for Artec Studio software for processing and analyzing the received 3D data.
Source: The Defense Minister of Luxembourg Francois Bausch, Artec3D director Artem Yukhin
“For the preservation of evidence, it is of central importance to freeze a situation in which suspected war crimes have taken place in its original state before anyone changes anything. Our scanners do exactly that,” says the Artec3D director Artem Yukhin.
Artec3D director Artem Yukhin, Nataliia Nestor, Deputy Director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, and the Defense Minister of Luxembourg Francois Bausch
One 3D scanner costs 35,000 euros. This device can be used to reconstruct skulls from bone fragments. They can also be used in the event of a car accident to determine which vehicle was involved. 3D scanners can also be used to make custom-fit prostheses.
Luxembourg also plans to provide Ukraine with 20 military vehicles. The official handover ceremony took place on November 10, 2022, during a meeting between the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Luxembourg, Francois Bausch, and Nataliia Nestor, Deputy Director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise.
Luxembourg will ship military material to Ukraine in total worth 74 million euros by the end of this year. Francois Bausch, Defense Minister, emphasizes that this amount is 16 percent of the total annual budget of his ministry.
See also: Luxembourg froze 5.5 billion euros of Russian assets
