Is Cathinone legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name as the parent alkaloid. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Катинон» at CAS 71031-15-7, and record UKR-27 accepts that printed row. The heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. Two consequences follow from this being the parent rather than a class. The list also prints particular synthetic derivatives under their own headings, which is how a schedule behaves when the parent heading is not being read as a bounded class. And the plant that produces this alkaloid is a separate question that this source left unresolved on its own row, so a finding here is not a finding about leaf material. Identity belongs to the Перелік under стаття 7 of the controlled substances law.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law has no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, with a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment at its third part and no life sentence in the article. The heading at CAS 71031-15-7 is matched, so наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule. Because the alkaloid is unstable and occurs at low and falling concentration in plant material, the practical grading question is an assay question, and this source reproduces neither the bands nor any rule on how a plant matrix is weighed. No figure is stated here and no separate possession article is named. 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, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing a traveller, and a scheduled medicine must additionally satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 71031-15-7, and there is no authorised Ukrainian medicine built on this alkaloid, so no prescription route arises for it. Beyond the country rule the source establishes no import permit, no personal allowance and no recognition of a foreign prescription, and none was researched. Traditional or customary use elsewhere creates no Ukrainian permission.

Documentation

Carry an assay rather than a plant name if any material is being carried, because the Ukrainian heading at CAS 71031-15-7 is written to the alkaloid and the practical dispute will be about how much of it the material contains. Do not rely on a description of the material as a herb or a chew. A traveller carrying a prescribed stimulant that might be confused with a cathinone should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter with the ingredient, strength, dose and treatment period. The heading was read 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.