Is Gabapentin legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Governed in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance, on this reading. Record UKR-41 reports that Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, was searched and no narcotics or psychotropic heading was accepted, and that the regime which applies is Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» with its controls on authorisation, prescription status, labelling, import and customs. The finding is the medicines regime. The absence of a narcotics heading is a negative record from one reading of the consolidated list rather than an independent confirmation, and gabapentinoids have been moved into control in a number of countries in recent years, so this is a row to recheck against the current list rather than to rely on. The recheck flag now has a concrete reason attached to it. The narcotics check logs "gabapentin" and the same word in capitals, both Latin, against an annex recorded as printed in Cyrillic, so it could not have matched a Cyrillic heading. The negative is unmeasured rather than merely old, and that is the stronger reason to verify the current list.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law provides no death penalty, and the narcotics ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment under Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, does not reach this substance on this record because record UKR-41 accepted no heading for it. Наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band for it for the same reason. The exposure that exists is under the medicines regime, for supply without authorisation or import of an unauthorised product, and this source reproduces none of those provisions or their penalties, so no article and no figure is stated. If the substance has since been scheduled, the narcotics figures would attach and this record would be stale. 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. This row is placed outside the narcotics regime, so they are recorded as Ukraine's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.

If prescribed or medical

The Ukrainian country rule has three parts and only one of them reaches this row. There is no personal use allowance for a scheduled substance; наказ МОЗ № 188 sets criminal grading bands rather than a traveller's allowance; and any medicine must satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. Only the third part engages here, because record UKR-41 is a separate regime finding with no accepted narcotics heading, so a traveller is carrying a prescription medicine rather than a scheduled substance. Beyond that, nothing was established: not whether Ukraine treats the product as prescription only, not what personal import quantity is permitted, and not whether a foreign prescription is recognised. None of it was researched. Carry the prescription anyway, because a prescription only medicine crossing a border is a customs question in every system. None of that was established in this source and none of it was researched beyond it, so it is recorded here as not established rather than settled.

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 quantity carried, together with the indication, since this medicine is prescribed for several unrelated conditions. Keep the quantity within the stated period. Because record UKR-41 rests on a negative reading of the narcotics list, recheck the current consolidated Перелік before travelling. The list 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.