Is Clonazepam legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by its own printed heading. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Клоназепам» at CAS 1622-61-3, and record UKR-29 accepts that row rather than reasoning from the empowering provision. The heading appears here in sentence case because the list prints in capitals. This is one of the six benzodiazepines the Ukrainian list names individually, which is why the class question on the separate class row of this source does not govern the answer for this molecule: the member is printed and the member is what an officer matches. It is also a first line anticonvulsant, so the row is simultaneously a scheduled heading and a long term prescription medicine under Закон України «Про лікарські засоби».

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law provides 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 anywhere in the article. Because the heading at CAS 1622-61-3 is matched by name, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule specifically rather than for the benzodiazepine class. For a low milligram tablet the band is reached at a tablet count a patient can plausibly be carrying, which is the real risk on this row. This source does not reproduce the figures, so none is stated, 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, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing carriage, 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 1622-61-3 and the typical traveller is an epilepsy patient carrying a continuing supply. The mechanism for recognising a foreign prescription at the Ukrainian border, and any permit for carrying a treatment course, was not established in this source and was not researched. The prescription is necessary on this record and cannot be described as sufficient.

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 active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose, the treatment period, the diagnosis and the total number of tablets. For an anticonvulsant carry enough for the trip plus a margin, and be able to justify that margin from the letter, because наказ МОЗ № 188 keys its bands to the heading at CAS 1622-61-3 without regard to why the tablets are held. Do not decant. Declare the medicine on arrival. 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.