Are Benzodiazepines legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine member by member, and Ukraine's own list names the members, so this is a finding rather than a deferral. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints six of them with their own headings and CAS numbers: діазепам at CAS 439-14-5, алпразолам at CAS 28981-97-7, клоназепам at CAS 1622-61-3, лоразепам at CAS 846-49-1, етизолам at CAS 40054-69-1 and німетазепам at CAS 2011-67-8. The source's own class row, record UKR-22, calls the class not verified and rejects the алпразолам heading as a near comparison because it does not name the class label, while record UKR-16 accepts that same heading as printed. The two readings are in tension and the source does not settle whether the class label maps to anything. What is settled is that the members are printed individually, and that is what a traveller meets.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine provides no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, whose third part carries a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment, with no life sentence in the article. The grading does not run on the class at all: наказ МОЗ № 188 keys its small, large and especially large bands to individual headings, so the band that applies is the one for the particular member, and the six printed members each carry their own. A cell that gave one figure for the class would be giving a figure for none of them. This source does not reproduce the individual bands, and it names no separate possession article. 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, uses наказ МОЗ № 188 to grade criminal conduct, and requires a scheduled medicine to satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is six individually printed headings, at CAS 439-14-5, CAS 28981-97-7, CAS 1622-61-3, CAS 846-49-1, CAS 40054-69-1 and CAS 2011-67-8, and these are ordinary prescribed medicines carried by ordinary travellers. The mechanism for recognising a foreign prescription at the Ukrainian border was not established in this source and was not researched. The prescription is necessary here and cannot be called sufficient on this record.

Documentation

Carry the prescription, the original dispensing pack with the pharmacy label in the patient's own name, and a prescriber's letter naming the specific member, its strength, the daily dose, the treatment period and the total number of tablets. Name the molecule, not the class, because Ukraine schedules the members individually and наказ МОЗ № 188 grades them individually. Keep the quantity within the stated treatment period, do not decant into unlabelled containers, and declare the medicine on arrival. The six member headings were read in the consolidated list on 20 September 2026 and an amendment can add or move a member.

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.