These are working notes for people who have to make a decision about a Ukrainian company and cannot travel there to look at it. Each guide walks through one job: confirming who really owns a business, screening it against sanctions and AML lists, finding a debtor's property, or reading a market and its players from open data.
Every source named here is public. Where a register has been closed or narrowed, the guide says so rather than pretending the data is still reachable.
The full order of checks before a contract: the state register, the people behind the company, sanctions exposure, Russia links, courts and debts. Start here if you have never checked a Ukrainian counterparty before, since the other guides pick up where each step of this one ends.
Read the guide →The declared owner is often not the real one. Where UBO data sits, how nominees and offshore layers break the chain, and what to do when the register stops answering.
Read the guide →What an AML check actually covers, how much of it you can run yourself at no cost, the point where free screening stops being useful, and what an AML risk score measures.
Read the guide →Winning a judgment and collecting on it are two different problems. Which registers still show a debtor's property, what the 2026 access rules changed, and which channels remain open.
Read the guide →Ukraine publishes a lot of usable demand and pricing data. Which sources show real volumes and active players, and where those numbers stop being reliable.
Read the guide →Owners, contract prices they actually charge, disputes they are fighting, and the point where the public trail runs out. Legal sources only, no pretexting.
Read the guide →Occupied ports, ship-to-ship transfers in the Black Sea, flags of convenience and end markets, and what that route means for a buyer, a bank or an insurer sitting at the end of it.
Read the guide →The Ukrainian-language index carries a wider set of guides, written in Ukrainian: see the full index. Nothing here is legal advice. How we stay inside the law is set out in Within the law.