Is Mephedrone (4-MMC) legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine under a heading that carries both the common name and a positional abbreviation. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Мефедрон (4-ММС)» at CAS 1189805-46-6 and record UKR-57 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals and the bracketed abbreviation is the list's own. The number in that abbreviation is doing real work. The same list separately prints the third position isomer at CAS 1246911-71-6, so Ukraine distinguishes these cathinones by where the methyl group sits on the ring rather than by a class clause, and a match on one is not a match on the other.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no 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 in the article. Because the heading at CAS 1189805-46-6 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this isomer specifically. Powders sold under this name frequently assay as the other isomer or as a mixture, and each carries its own heading and band, so an assay rather than a label decides the grading. This source states no figures and names no separate possession article. 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 1189805-46-6 and no authorised medicine anywhere is built on this molecule, so there is no prescription route to describe. The source establishes no import permit, no personal allowance and no recognition of a foreign prescription, and none was researched. Prior legality in another market has no bearing.

Documentation

Carry no reliance on a name, because the Ukrainian heading at CAS 1189805-46-6 is written to one ring isomer and its sibling is printed separately at CAS 1246911-71-6. A traveller carrying a prescribed stimulant that might be mistaken for 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, and should keep the quantity to that period. 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.