You cannot verify a Ukrainian company from a spreadsheet. We do it standing on their factory floor.
Independent, on-the-ground verification of Ukrainian suppliers and acquisition targets, written for Western procurement and investment teams. Your dossier arrives in 10 business days.
Steel profiles and fabrication. Lviv oblast. Prospective supplier.
ProceedProceed with conditionsDo not proceed
Proceed with conditions
Ownership chain traced to beneficial ownersVERIFIED
Sanctions, PEP and watchlists — no matchesVERIFIED
ISO 9001 confirmed with the issuing bodyVERIFIED
Three production lines observed in operationOBSERVED
Production records Jan–Jun: 276–303 t/monthDOCUMENTED
Two customers report 280–300 t/monthCORROBORATED
Management states capacity of 400 t/monthCLAIMED — discrepancy
Critical roles concentrated in 10 people; reservation documentation reviewed for 7DOCUMENTED
Our assessment: sustainable demonstrated capacity of about 290 t/month.
Conditions. Size first orders to demonstrated capacity. Stage payments against delivery. Pre-shipment inspection on the first two orders.
Every line in a dossier carries an evidence label. You always know the difference between what we confirmed and what you were told.
What you can't see from a distance
Western buyers and investors are waking up to a market most can't reach, and to risks they can't see from a distance. Is the company real? Is the capacity real? Is the ownership clean? Is the location safe to source from?
In a war economy, documents can lie, and Google Maps doesn't walk the floor.
Questions no registry answers:
Can this factory hold its critical roles through another year of mobilization?
Will it keep running through a blackout?
How close is it to the front, and how often has the area been hit?
What you receive
A structured dossier on any Ukrainian company you're considering buying from, or buying. It is written the way a Western procurement or investment team wants to read it: clear, evidenced, and ending with a call we're willing to put our name to.
Section 1
Legal
Registration and status, ownership chain to the beneficial owners, tax standing, litigation, and sanctions and watchlist screening.
Section 2
Operational
A physical site visit: equipment, workforce, production records and current order book, checked against what the company claims.
Section 3
Commercial
Export history, certifications checked at the source, existing customers, and payment behavior.
Section 4
Risk read
Location and logistics exposure, war-related risk, workforce continuity, energy resilience, and red-flag indicators.
Section 5
Evidence
Timestamped photos, registry extracts, management interview notes, and the verdict.
How we label evidence
Most reports blur what was confirmed with what was said in a meeting. Ours can't. Every material statement in a dossier carries one of five labels.
VERIFIED
Independently confirmed against an authoritative source: a state registry, a court file, or the body that issued a certificate.
OBSERVED
Our personnel physically saw it during the site visit.
DOCUMENTED
Documents supplied by the company support it.
CORROBORATED
An independent third party supports it, such as a customer reference, but the source is not authoritative.
CLAIMED
Management states it, and no independent evidence was available.
Two further flags appear where they apply:
DISCREPANCY
Independent evidence conflicts with what the company told us.
UNABLE TO VERIFY
We tried and could not confirm it, and we say why.
This is the difference between a dossier and a company-information report. It also means you can see exactly how much weight each finding carries before you act on it.
The verdict
Proceed
No significant red flags. Any minor issues come with clear mitigations.
Proceed with conditions
Manageable risks, with the protections we recommend: staged payments, pre-shipment inspection, a follow-up visit.
Do not proceed
A hard stop, and exactly why. Every verdict also says what would change our view.
Why us
We don't verify from Google Maps. Destination Ukraine is a working operation on the ground, with staff, vehicles, and legal counsel on call.
One accountable local team checks the records, walks the site, challenges the claims, and explains what the evidence means for your decision. Every dossier is reviewed by a senior lead and written to a Western standard of reporting. Legal findings and the final verdict are reviewed with Ukrainian counsel.
Independence
Our verdict is worth nothing if you can't trust where it comes from.
Destination Ukraine has no business interests in Russia or Belarus, and neither does our founder.
We disclose in every dossier any prior relationship between Destination Ukraine and the company being verified. If we introduced you to them, you read that on page one.
We are paid the same whether the answer is proceed or do not proceed. We have never taken a fee from a company being verified, and we won’t.
Every client is identity-checked and sanctions-screened before we start.
Pricing
Three levels, fixed prices, no hourly billing. Choose by what's at stake.
Most of our work is in machinery and metalwork, furniture and wood, textiles and apparel, electrical components, food processing, and building materials.
Founding client pricing — 20% off, first five clients.
In exchange we ask for a short testimonial and permission to publish a redacted version of your dossier as a sample.
Desk Screen
For shortlisting suppliers, screening a small first order, or deciding whether a visit is worth it.
$1,250
5 business days
Registration, legal status, and history of changes
Ownership chain to the ultimate beneficial owners
Company, owners and directors screened against EU, UK, US, UN and Ukrainian sanctions lists, plus PEP and watchlists
Tax standing, VAT status, and tax debt
Litigation, enforcement, and bankruptcy
Certifications checked with the issuing bodies, where a searchable directory exists
Export history and public tender record, where available
Adverse media in Ukrainian, Russian and English
Preliminary view, and whether we recommend a visit
An 8–12 page report with registry extracts. A desk screen tells you what the record says. It does not confirm that the operation behind the record exists.
Credited in full against an On-Site Dossier if you upgrade within 60 days. Starting small costs you nothing.
On-Site Dossier
Most requested. For first significant orders, long-term supply agreements, and anyone about to pay in advance.
$3,900
10 business days
Everything in the Desk Screen
Two-person visit to the production site
Equipment, workforce and production records checked against the company's claims
Order book documents reviewed, and two customer reference calls to corroborate volumes
Management interview
Workforce continuity: reservation status of key personnel where documentation is available, concentration of critical roles, turnover and recruitment capability
Energy resilience: backup power, fuel reserves, and production time lost to outages and alerts
Location risk: distance from the front, strike history in the area, and logistics routes out
Timestamped photo record of site, equipment and operations
Every finding evidence-labelled; final verdict reviewed with Ukrainian counsel
A 20–30 page dossier, evidence annex, and a 30-minute debrief call.
Includes three months of ongoing monitoring, so you keep seeing ownership, court, tax and sanctions changes after the dossier lands.
Acquisition-Grade Diligence
For investors, acquirers, and joint-venture partners. Typically 3–4 weeks, scoped per deal.
Typically from $12,000
Typically 3–4 weeks
Everything in the On-Site Dossier
Site visits to every material facility
Three years of financial statements, revenue quality, and customer concentration
Real estate, land and assets, with liens and encumbrances
Permits and licences, environmental and labor flags
Background checks on key people and related parties
Multiple management interviews and 5–8 reference calls
Valuation inputs for your advisers
Red-flag memo for your lawyers and investment committee
A full report, red-flag memo, and a debrief with your deal team.
Final pricing depends on the number of legal entities and sites, and the complexity of the structure. We quote after a 30-minute scoping call.
Keep watching after you sign
A dossier is a point in time. Ownership changes, courts file cases, tax debts appear, and sanctions lists update — usually without anyone telling your procurement team.
Ongoing monitoring — $200 per month per company
Six-month minimum, or $2,000 a year. The first three months are included with every On-Site Dossier. You get alerts on ownership, director, court, tax-debt and sanctions changes as they happen, plus a quarterly summary. Most clients add it for every supplier they keep.
Add-ons
Add-on
What it does
Price
Follow-up site check
A return visit to a company we've already verified, for example before a large order ships
$1,500
Additional site
A second production site of the same company
$1,500
Rush delivery
On-Site Dossier in 7 business days
+30%
Multiple suppliers
Verifying several companies at once
10% off 3–4, 15% off 5+
Extended travel zone
Sites that need an overnight trip from our bases
+$500
Frontline oblasts
Subject to our security assessment. We decline visits that don't clear it
By quote, from +$1,000
Certified translation
Key documents translated and certified
Quoted per document
How it works
An On-Site Dossier, day by day.
Day 0
Start
Scoping call, engagement letter, and the supplier's signed authorization for the visit.
Days 1–4
Desk check
Registries, sanctions, courts, certifications and media, run to a fixed search protocol so every company gets the same checks. We finish the records before the visit, so the visit tests specific claims.
Days 5–7
Site visit
Equipment, workforce, production records, order book, and management interview.
Days 8–9
Review
Drafting, evidence labelling, red-flag register, and counsel's review of the verdict.
Day 10
Delivery
Dossier and debrief call.
The 10-day clock starts once the engagement is signed and the company has confirmed a visit date. The free scoping call takes 30 minutes.
Coverage
Standard coverage
Sites reachable as day trips from our operating bases in Ukraine.
Extended travel zone
Sites that need an overnight trip: +$500.
Frontline oblasts
By security assessment and quote. We decline visits the assessment doesn't clear. Your dossier is not worth a life.
Occupied territories
We do not visit. Any company with registration, assets or operations there is flagged.
We work openly
The company knows it's being verified. Before a visit, the supplier signs an authorization letter covering site access, photography, and release of documents. A supplier who refuses to sign has already told you something important.
If the company refuses or cancels access, you receive the desk findings and a documented record of the refusal. We refund the difference between your tier and the Desk Screen, less any travel costs already incurred. In our method, refused access is itself a finding, and it usually points the same direction.
What a dossier is, and isn't
It is independent, evidence-based verification at a point in time. It is not a legal opinion, a financial audit, a certification audit, or a guarantee of future performance. It is prepared for you, and may not be relied on by third parties without our written consent.
Questions buyers ask
Will the company know we're checking them?+−
Yes. We don't do covert investigations. Being open is what makes a site visit, a document review and a management interview possible.
How do you handle things you can’t confirm?+−
We label them. Every statement in a dossier is marked VERIFIED, OBSERVED, DOCUMENTED, CORROBORATED or CLAIMED, and anything we tried and failed to confirm is marked UNABLE TO VERIFY with the reason. A report that quietly implies everything was checked is worse than useless.
Can you verify ISO, CE, IATF or food-safety certificates?+−
We check each certificate against the certification body or scheme directory that issued it, not the PDF the supplier sent you. Some issuing bodies have no searchable directory. Where that happens we report the certificate as unable to independently verify rather than implying confirmation.
Do you verify production capacity?+−
We verify the evidence for it. We observe the equipment and shifts, review production records, and corroborate volumes with customers, then state a demonstrated capacity range. We will not certify a capacity figure because a machine on the floor is theoretically able to produce it.
How is this different from a factory inspection?+−
An inspection checks the floor. We check the floor, the owners, the courts, the tax record and the sanctions lists, then give you a verdict and the contract protections we'd use in your position.
What if the company refuses the visit?+−
You receive the desk findings and a documented refusal, and we refund the difference between your tier and the Desk Screen, less travel costs already incurred.
Is it safe for your team to visit?+−
Every visit goes through a security assessment first. Frontline areas are assessed case by case, and we decline visits that don't clear.
Do you verify companies in every sector?+−
Most. Companies in regulated or security-sensitive sectors go through a separate review before we accept the engagement, and some we decline.
Do you have a conflict of interest, given what Destination Ukraine does?+−
We disclose any prior relationship with the company being verified in the dossier itself, we are paid the same whichever way the verdict goes, and we never take a fee from a company we’re verifying.
Can you keep watching a supplier after we sign?+−
Yes. Ongoing monitoring alerts you to ownership, director, court, tax and sanctions changes as they happen, with a quarterly summary.
Do you work in Moldova too?+−
Yes, through Destination Moldova. Comparing suppliers in both countries? Verify one company in each and take 10% off both.
Request a verification
Tell us about the company and the deal. We'll reply within one business day to book your free 30-minute scoping call.
