Is Modafinil legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Governed in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance, on this reading. Record UKR-65 reports that Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, was searched and that no narcotics or psychotropic heading was accepted, and that the regime which applies is Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» with its controls on authorisation, prescription status, labelling, import and customs. The finding is the medicines regime. The absence of a narcotics heading is a negative record from one reading of the list rather than an independent confirmation, and this is a wakefulness promoting agent that several countries have brought under control, so it is a row to verify against the current list rather than to lean on. The reason to verify is sharper than staleness. The narcotics check logs "modafinil" and the same word in capitals, both Latin, run against an annex recorded as printed in Cyrillic, so it could not have matched a Cyrillic heading at all. The negative is unmeasured, and for a substance several countries have scheduled that is the point at which a reader should stop relying on it.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine provides no death penalty, and the narcotics ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment under Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, does not reach this substance on this record because record UKR-65 accepted no heading for it. Наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band for it for the same reason. The exposure that exists is under the medicines regime, for supply without authorisation, sale outside a pharmacy or import of an unauthorised product, and this source reproduces none of those provisions or penalties, so no article and no figure is stated here. 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. This row is placed outside the narcotics regime, so they are recorded as Ukraine's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.

If prescribed or medical

The Ukrainian country rule is that no personal use allowance exists for a scheduled substance, that наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing a traveller, and that a medicine must also satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. Only the medicines limb engages on this row, because record UKR-65 is a separate regime finding with no accepted narcotics heading. A traveller is therefore carrying a prescription medicine. Whether Ukraine treats it as prescription only, what personal import quantity is permitted and whether a foreign prescription is recognised were not established and were not researched. Note also that this substance is bought online without prescription in large volumes, and an online purchase is not a prescription in any system.

Documentation

Carry the prescription, the original dispensing pack with the pharmacy label in the patient's own name, and a prescriber's letter naming the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose, the treatment period, the sleep disorder diagnosis and the total quantity. Do not carry blister strips stripped of their labelling or a bulk quantity bought online, because quantity without a prescription is what turns a medicines question into a supply question. Recheck the current consolidated Перелік before travelling, since record UKR-65 rests on a negative reading of the list taken 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.