KIEV, Sept. 12 - Ukraine is getting ready to begin shipments of Caspian Sea crude via Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to markets in Europe as soon as next year, an official at Naftogaz Ukrayiny said Monday.

Odessa-Brody, which was originally designed to move the Caspian crude, had last year started to move Russian crude from Brody to Odessa, reversing the original plans amid political pressure from Russia.