According to the requirements of paragraph 4 of Section II of the Rules for usage of the Ukrainian airspace, flights of unmanned aircraft with mass below 20 kg inclusive may be performed without submission of applications for the airspace usage, obtaining permits for airspace usage and informing the appropriate units of Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Integrated Civil-Military ATM System (ICMS), units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, units of civil and military Air Traffic Service (ATS), subject to compliance with the following requirements:
1) flights are performed without crossing of the state border of Ukraine;
2) flights are performed outside of the is established prohibitions and restrictions of airspace usage, with the exception of the cases established by the Regulations for usage of the Ukrainian airspace;
3) flights are performed neither closer than 5 km from the external boundaries of runways of aerodromes, nor closer than 3 km from the external boundaries of the runway of small aerodromes (with MTOM of aircraft below 5700 kg) / heliports, except in cases agreed with the operator of aerodrome / heliports;
4) flights are performed not closer than 500 meters from manned aircraft;
5) flights are not performed over:
the assemblies of people at open air and tight city construction;
the objects (zones) that defined by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, the Department of the State Guard of Ukraine, other military formations and law-enforcement structures formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine and in respect of which protection / state protection is carried out (subject to the indication of the territory surrounding these objects with information signs of prohibition unmanned aircraft flight and / or by announcing the limits of such a ban), except for flights performed under the permission of the above-mentioned authorities;
6) flights are performed within the visual line of sight (VLOS);
7) maximum flight altitude:
120 meters above terrestrial (water) surface outside the CTR, AFIZ, ATCA, ATCZ, specially designated zones and routes, other specially reserved portions of airspace;
50 meters above terrestrial (water) surface within the limits of CTR, AFIZ, ATCA, ATCZ, specially designated zones, other reserved portions of airspace, if there is no information on the actual status of elements of the airspace structure where flight is planned;
50 meters above static obstacles at a horizontal distance of not more than 100 meters from obstacles such as a deviation from the above mentioned height limitations, at the request of the owner of such object;
8) the operating speed of unmanned aircraft is not more than 160 km / h;
In other cases, unmanned aircraft weighing below 20 kg inclusive and all operations of unmanned aircraft weighing more than 20 kg without exception, are performed within specially defined zones and routes complying with the requirements for submitting applications for airspace usage, obtaining permits and condition of airspace usage, informing the appropriate units of Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the ICMS units, the ATS units.
Offender liability for violation of the rules and order of usage of the Ukrainian airspace is established by Articles 281, 282 Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Responsibility of legal entities - subjects of aviation activity for violation of the rules and order of usage of the Ukrainian airspace is established by article 127 of the Air Code of Ukraine.
Responsibility of individuals - subjects of aviation activity for flights in violation of regulatory legal acts regulating aviation activities, established by Article 111 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Violations.
The list of types of violations of the order of usage of the Ukrainian airspace is given in paragraph 46 of the Regulations for usage of the Ukrainian airspace.