Is Tramadol legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Recorded in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance, and this is the weakest of the negative records in the set. Record UKR-86 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 list rather than an independent confirmation, and this synthetic opioid has been brought under national control in a great many countries precisely because it falls outside the international schedules, so the negative should be verified against the current list before anyone relies on it. Here is the concrete reason the negative is weak. The narcotics check logs "tramadol" and the same word in capitals, both Latin, run against an annex this source records as printed in Cyrillic. A Latin search of a Cyrillic annex returns nothing whether or not the opioid is listed, so the negative was never measured at all. Treat the placement of this opioid as an open question and verify it against the current list before relying on anything here.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law provides no death penalty. On this record the narcotics ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment under Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, does not reach the substance because record UKR-86 accepted no heading, and наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band for it. That conclusion is conditional on the negative being right. If the current Перелік carries a heading for this opioid, the ceiling and a band attach and this record is wrong rather than merely thin. The exposure under the medicines regime, for unauthorised supply or import, is not reproduced by this source and no article or figure from it is stated. 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. On this record it engages only through that medicines limb, because record UKR-86 is a separate regime finding with no accepted narcotics heading, so on this record the traveller is 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. Because this is an opioid and because the negative record is fragile, a patient should carry the documentation appropriate to a controlled medicine and verify the current list before travelling.

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 formulation including whether it is modified release, the strength, the daily dose, the treatment period, the indication and the total quantity in milligrams. Treat this as you would a controlled opioid even though record UKR-86 does not classify it as one, and check the current consolidated Перелік for a heading before travelling. The reading behind this record 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.