Is Heroin legal in Ukraine?

Also known as: diacetylmorphine, smack

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Героїн» at CAS 561-27-3 and record UKR-44 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. The registry number fixes the diacetyl ester rather than the parent alkaloid, which the same list prints separately at CAS 57-27-2, so Ukraine reaches the two through different headings and a match on one is not a match on the other. This source does not state which of таблиці I to IV the heading occupies, and it records no limb about preparations, so nothing is asserted here about street material of low purity beyond the identity of the molecule.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine abolished the death penalty and no drug article restores it, so the heaviest exposure stated by this source is imprisonment. The trade article is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, with a ceiling of twelve years at its third part and no life sentence provided anywhere in the article. Because the heading at CAS 561-27-3 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands. Street material is heavily adulterated, so whether the band applies to the total mass or to the assayed diacetyl content decides most cases, and this source states neither the figures nor the method. 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 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 561-27-3. Diamorphine is a licensed analgesic in a small number of health systems, and this source establishes no Ukrainian authorisation for it, no import permit and no recognition of a foreign prescription. None was researched. Do not assume that a clinical use elsewhere creates any route into Ukraine.

Documentation

Carry nothing in reliance on this row. There is no ordinary lawful carriage of this substance into Ukraine and no document that creates one on this record. A patient in opioid agonist treatment travels on the substitution medicine and its documents rather than on this heading, and should carry the prescription, the dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name and a clinic letter giving the ingredient, the dose and the duration of treatment. The heading at CAS 561-27-3 was read in the consolidated list 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.