Is MDPV legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine under a four letter Cyrillic abbreviation. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «МДПВ» at CAS 687603-66-3 and record UKR-55 accepts that printed row. The registry number is what fixes the compound, because the abbreviation alone would not distinguish this pyrrolidinophenone from the several close relatives that circulate under similar names. The Ukrainian approach here is the same as elsewhere in this list: the synthetic cathinones are printed individually, which is also why the open family row in this source, record UKR-83, could not be resolved at class level. Identity belongs to the Перелік under стаття 7 of the controlled substances law.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law provides no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, twelve years of imprisonment at the ceiling of its third part, no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 687603-66-3 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule. The compound is potent by mass and is usually sold as a powder of unknown purity, so the assayed content rather than the gross weight is what a careful grading rests on, 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 687603-66-3 and no authorised medicine anywhere is built on this molecule, so there is no prescription route and none should be described. The source establishes no import permit, no personal allowance and no recognition of a foreign prescription, and none was researched.

Documentation

Carry no reliance on a product name, because the Ukrainian heading is pinned to CAS 687603-66-3 and near relatives sold under similar names are separate molecules with separate treatment. A traveller carrying a prescribed stimulant that could be confused with a cathinone powder should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's own name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the treatment period. Keep the quantity within that period. The heading 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.