KIEV, April 27 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has offered her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the use of the Prydniprovski oil-trunk pipeline instead of the reversed route of the Odessa-Brody pipeline for pumping Russian oil.

Bohdan Sokolovsky, the Ukrainian president's envoy for energy security, announced this at a briefing in Kiev on Monday, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.