Is Nitrous Oxide legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Governed in Ukraine by use category rather than by the narcotics list, and the source contradicts itself about that. Record UKR-70 reports that Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, was searched and no narcotics or psychotropic heading was accepted, and that the applicable controls are the medicines, food additive and product safety rules according to the intended use of the gas. Record UKR-19 of the same source, on the alkyl nitrites, names this substance as a printed near entry in that same list. One record says it is not in the list, the other treats it as printed. The source does not settle it, and this cell states both rather than choosing. The conflict has a likely cause. The narcotics check for this row logs "dušikov oksid" and the formula, the first plainly a South Slavic transliteration and both Latin, run against an annex recorded as printed in Cyrillic. A search of that kind could not have matched a Cyrillic heading, which is exactly how this row could record an absence while another row of the same source names the substance as printed. The absence half is unmeasured.Not listed in Ukraine's narcotics annex, and the contradiction the applied cell left open is now settled against the entry. The перелік approved by Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770, in the redaction of 13 September 2025, was searched in its own Cyrillic script for азоту закис, закис азоту, оксид азоту, динітроген, азот and the registry number, and no row of any of the four tables answers to any of them. The applied cell set a record saying the gas is outside the list against another record saying the alkyl nitrite row names it as a printed near entry. That second record cannot be right, because this annex prints no alkyl nitrite either: амілнітрит, ізобутилнітрит and every related form return nothing across all four tables. So the absence stands and the near entry claim falls. What reaches the gas instead is medicines, food additive and product safety legislation according to intended use, and this source names no individual instrument inside that regime. Read on 21 September 2026.

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 gas on record UKR-70 because no heading was accepted for it. Наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band for it on that record. But record UKR-19 of the same source asserts a printed entry, and if that is the correct reading a heading and a band exist, so the grading is as unresolved as the status. The exposure under the medicines, food additive and product safety regimes is not reproduced by this source and no article or figure from it 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. because no row of Постанова № 770 answers to it. Наказ МОЗ № 188 keys its bands to printed rows and so supplies none here. The applied cell treated the grading as unresolved because another row of the same dossier claimed a printed entry, and that claim has now been tested against the annex and fails, so the grading is not unresolved: the narcotics scale simply does not engage. The exposure under the medicines, food additive and product safety regimes is not reproduced by this source and no article or figure from it is stated here.

If prescribed or medical

The Ukrainian rule for scheduled substances is no personal use allowance, criminal grading under наказ МОЗ № 188 rather than a traveller's allowance, and compliance with Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» for a scheduled medicine. It engages on this row only if record UKR-19 is right and record UKR-70 is wrong, which the source does not determine. Taken as a medicine, the gas is an authorised anaesthetic and analgesic handled under Закон України «Про лікарські засоби»; taken as a food additive it is a propellant; taken as a consumer canister it is a product safety question. This source establishes no traveller rule for any of the three, no import permit and no allowance, and none was researched.

Documentation

Carry documentation matched to the use, because that is what record UKR-70 says the regime follows. Medical gas should travel with the clinical authorisation, the cylinder's certification and the prescriber's or provider's letter. Catering cartridges should travel in their retail packaging with the food grade declaration and the quantity plainly consistent with catering use. Do not carry large quantities of unlabelled canisters. Note that the source contradicts itself about whether this substance is in the narcotics list at all, so the safer assumption is that it may be. The list was read on 20 September 2026.the separate regime follows. Medical gas should travel with the clinical authorisation, the cylinder's certification and the prescriber's or provider's letter. Catering cartridges should travel in their retail packaging with the food grade declaration and the quantity plainly consistent with catering use. Do not carry large quantities of unlabelled canisters. The contradiction that the applied cell warned about has been resolved by reading the annex in Cyrillic, so the earlier advice to assume the gas may be scheduled is withdrawn, but the annex can be amended and the horizon of this reading is stated in the source line. Read on 21 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.