Is MDMA legal in Ukraine?

Also known as: molly, ecstasy

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine under a Cyrillic abbreviation of its chemical name. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «МДМА» at CAS 42542-10-9 and record UKR-54 accepts that printed row. The registry number fixes the hydrochloride form commonly cited for this compound, and the list prints the demethylated relative separately at CAS 4764-17-4, so the two are reached by two headings and not by one class. 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 about tablets of mixed composition beyond the identity of the molecule.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has abolished the 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 42542-10-9 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule. Tablets vary widely in content and often contain more than one listed substance, so the grading rests on an assay rather than on a tablet count, and this source gives neither the figures nor a rule for weighing a preparation. 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 42542-10-9. Regulatory approval of this molecule for assisted psychotherapy has been sought in several countries, and this source establishes no Ukrainian authorised product, no import permit and no recognition of a foreign prescription or trial supply. None was researched. A trial participation letter is not a Ukrainian authorisation.

Documentation

Carry nothing in reliance on this row, because it establishes a listed heading rather than any route for carriage. A patient enrolled in a supervised programme abroad should not assume the programme's documents travel with the medicine, and should settle the Ukrainian position in advance. A traveller carrying an unrelated prescribed medicine should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the ingredient, strength, dose and treatment period. The heading at CAS 42542-10-9 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.