Is Methylone legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine under a heading that gives the common name and the beta keto formula together. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Метилон (bk-MDMA)» at CAS 186028-79-5 and record UKR-62 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals and the bracketed form is the list's own. The bracketed abbreviation is useful because it states the structural relationship to a substance printed separately in the same list at CAS 42542-10-9, while the two remain distinct headings with distinct registry numbers. Ukraine has again scheduled a cathinone individually rather than by a family clause.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law has 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 186028-79-5 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule. Material sold as one cathinone regularly assays as another, and each carries its own heading and band in this list, so the assay rather than the sale name settles the grading. The 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 186028-79-5 and no medicinal product is built on this molecule anywhere, so no prescription route exists 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 bracketed structural abbreviation, because although the Ukrainian heading names the relationship to another listed substance, the two are separate headings at CAS 186028-79-5 and CAS 42542-10-9 and an officer matches the molecule. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine that might be confused with a cathinone should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the active ingredient, the strength, the dose and the treatment period. 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.