KIEV, July 30 - The Ukrainian government will not agree to the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline project being operated by offshore companies, the country's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told a press conference on Wednesday.

"There is no way that Ukraine is going to support the murky schemes of operation of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline. And this is exactly why we will never support this sort of shadowy cooperation and, in effect, the shadowy privatization of the oil pipeline through offshore companies, which leave Ukraine without the right to have an impact on this project and Europe without a chance to have a proper corridor for diversifying oil supplies," she said.