Is Pregabalin legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Governed in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance, on this reading, and the reading should be checked before it is relied on. Record UKR-78 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 regime which applies is Закон України «Про лікарські засоби». The finding is the medicines regime. The absence of a narcotics heading is a negative record from one reading of the consolidated list rather than an independent confirmation, and this gabapentinoid has been brought under national control in a number of countries because of diversion and misuse, which makes a stale negative the likeliest way this cell could be wrong. The flag is now a measurement flag rather than a currency flag. The narcotics check logs "pregabalin" and the same word in capitals, both Latin, against an annex this source records as printed in Cyrillic, so it could not have matched a Cyrillic heading. For a gabapentinoid that neighbouring systems have scheduled, an unmeasured negative is not a basis for travel planning.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law 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-78 accepted no heading. Наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band for it for the same reason. If the current list does carry a heading for it, both the ceiling and a band would attach and this record would be wrong rather than merely incomplete. The exposure under the medicines regime, for unauthorised supply or import, is not reproduced by this source, 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 no personal use allowance for a scheduled substance, criminal grading under наказ МОЗ № 188 rather than a traveller's allowance, and compliance with Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» for a medicine. It engages on this row only through that third limb, because record UKR-78 is a separate regime finding with no accepted narcotics heading, so the traveller is carrying a prescription medicine. Whether Ukraine treats it as prescription only, what personal import quantity is allowed and whether a foreign prescription is recognised were not established and were not researched. Given that this substance is controlled in several neighbouring legal systems, a patient should assume the stricter position and check the current Ukrainian list rather than rely on this negative.

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 indication and the total quantity, since this medicine is prescribed for neuropathic pain, for epilepsy and for anxiety and the indication is often asked about. Keep the quantity within the stated period. Recheck the current consolidated Перелік for this substance before travelling; the reading behind record UKR-78 was 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.