Is Xanax (Alprazolam) legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name as a single molecule. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints the heading «Алпразолам» and fixes it at CAS 28981-97-7, and record UKR-16 accepts that printed row rather than reasoning from the empowering provision. The list prints its headings in capitals and this one is given here in sentence case. This is also a medicine with genuine therapeutic use, so the row carries two statuses at once: a listed heading under the Перелік approved by стаття 7 of Закон України «Про наркотичні засоби, психотропні речовини і прекурсори», and a prescription medicine under Закон України «Про лікарські засоби». The source does not state which of таблиці I to IV the heading occupies, which matters because the table decides the handling regime.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law carries no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, whose third part sets a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment, and the source records that no life sentence is provided in that article. Because the heading at CAS 28981-97-7 is matched by name, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule, and for a tablet medicine those bands are what turn a quantity of a lawful prescription into a criminal grading question. This source does not reproduce the numeric figures, so no tablet count or milligram figure is stated here, and no separate possession article is named by it. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Ukrainian list brings into play.

If prescribed or medical

Ukraine allows no personal use quantity in the narcotics sense, and наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than authorising carriage. A scheduled medicine must additionally satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs, and this row is exactly such a medicine: the placement is a matched heading at CAS 28981-97-7 and the product is a prescribed anxiolytic. What the source does not establish is the traveller mechanism. No import permit procedure, no personal quantity allowance and no rule recognising a foreign prescription was found, and none was researched. The prescription is necessary on this record and cannot be said to be sufficient.

Documentation

Carry the prescription itself, the original dispensing pack with the pharmacy label in the patient's own name, and a letter from the prescriber naming the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose, the treatment period and the total number of tablets carried. Do not decant tablets into an unlabelled container. Keep the quantity within the treatment period stated in the letter, because the Ukrainian grading bands under наказ МОЗ № 188 attach to the heading at CAS 28981-97-7 regardless of the prescription. Declare the medicine rather than waiting to be asked. The heading was read in the consolidated list on 20 September 2026.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Ukraine’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.