Is Cocaine legal in Ukraine?

Also known as: coke, blow

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Кокаїн» at CAS 50-36-2, and record UKR-30 accepts that row; the heading is given in sentence case because the list prints in capitals. One feature of the source deserves recording on this cell rather than being left buried. This heading was used sixteen times in the same document as the near comparison inspected and rejected for unrelated substances, including tryptamines, arylcyclohexylamines and cannabinoids, none of which is a neighbour of a tropane ester. That makes the heading itself well established and the near comparison column around it close to worthless, which is a caution about the source rather than about the control.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has abolished the death penalty and no drug article restores it. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, whose third part carries a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment, and no life sentence is provided in the article. Because the heading at CAS 50-36-2 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands and those bands decide which part of стаття 307 is engaged. The same heading covers the salt and the base, which is why a preparation row elsewhere in this source resolves onto this identical heading. This source does not reproduce the gram figures and 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, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing carriage, and a scheduled medicine must also satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 50-36-2. A topical medical preparation of this substance exists in some health systems, and this source establishes no Ukrainian authorisation for one, no import permit and no recognition of a foreign prescription. None was researched. Do not assume a clinical use abroad creates a route into Ukraine.

Documentation

Carry nothing that relies on a foreign supply document. If a medical preparation containing this substance has genuinely been prescribed, carry the prescription, the original dispensing pack with the pharmacy label in the patient's name, and a prescriber's letter naming the active ingredient, the concentration, the dose, the treatment period and the total quantity, and obtain the Ukrainian authorisation before travelling rather than at the border. The heading at CAS 50-36-2 was read in the consolidated list on 20 September 2026 and a later amendment can move it between tables.

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.