Is Diazepam legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by its own printed heading, and it is an ordinary prescription medicine at the same time. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Діазепам» at CAS 439-14-5 and record UKR-34 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. Being listed in Ukraine does not make this a narcotic drug in the sense a traveller fears, and nothing in this source supports describing it that way. It is one of six benzodiazepines the Ukrainian list names individually, it is dispensed on prescription under Закон України «Про лікарські засоби», and the table it occupies is not stated by this source.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty, and no life sentence is provided by Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, the trade article this source names. That article's third part carries a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment, and it is the ceiling for trafficking conduct, not the tariff for a patient with a prescription. Because the heading at CAS 439-14-5 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 keys its small, large and especially large bands to this molecule individually. This source does not reproduce the figures, so no tablet count is stated here, and it names no separate possession article. Do not read the trafficking ceiling as the exposure of a prescribed traveller. 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 439-14-5 carried by a very large number of ordinary patients. What this 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. It cannot be called sufficient, and it must not be described as useless either.

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 and the total number of tablets. Keep the quantity inside that stated period, because the Ukrainian bands under наказ МОЗ № 188 attach to the heading at CAS 439-14-5 regardless of the reason the tablets are held. Do not decant into a pill organiser without keeping the labelled pack. Declare the medicine on arrival rather than waiting to be asked. 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.