KIEV, Nov. 10 - Ukraine will make a test-run shipment of Venezuelan crude via its Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Belarus on Nov. 17, first deputy prime minister Andriy Kliuyev said Wednesday.

The test-run will show whether Ukraine is capable of using the Odessa-to-Brody route for making the Venezuelan oil shipments to replace shipments by railroad tanks. The pipeline is currently moving Russian oil from Brody to Odessa for exports via an oil terminal.