Is Xylazine legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Governed in Ukraine as a veterinary medicine rather than as a scheduled substance. Record UKR-87 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 controls which apply are Ukraine's veterinary medicines legislation on authorisation, supply through veterinary channels, record keeping and import. The finding is the veterinary regime. The absence of a narcotics heading is a negative record from one reading of the list rather than an independent confirmation, and this sedative has appeared as an adulterant in illicit opioid supply in several countries, which is the pressure that leads to scheduling elsewhere. The negative half is unmeasured. The narcotics check logs "xylazine" and the same word in capitals, both Latin, against an annex recorded as printed in Cyrillic, so it could not have matched a Cyrillic heading. The veterinary finding stands on its own, and given that this substance is being scheduled elsewhere as an adulterant the narcotics question should be treated as open.

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-87 accepted no heading for it. Наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band for it either. Where the substance is found as an adulterant, the listed substance it is mixed with carries its own heading and its own band, and that is what the grading would run on. The veterinary regime's own provisions and penalties are 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 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. No limb of it engages on this row, because record UKR-87 is a separate regime finding with no accepted narcotics heading. This is not a human medicine, so there is no human prescription route and none should be described. A veterinarian moving clinical stock is subject to the veterinary supply and import rules, and this source establishes neither those rules nor any traveller allowance, and none was researched. Nothing here authorises a private individual to hold the substance.

Documentation

Carry the veterinary practice authorisation, the purchase and inventory records and the labelled original containers if the substance is being moved for clinical use, because on this record the controls are veterinary supply controls rather than narcotics controls. A private individual has no document that makes carriage appropriate. An animal owner travelling with a sedated animal should carry the treating veterinarian's letter and the animal's health record instead. The narcotics list was read on 20 September 2026 and record UKR-87 rests on a negative reading of it.

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.