KIEV, Feb. 10 - Ukraine will start moving Caspian Sea crude oil to markets in the European Union despite opposition to the project from Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.

Yushchenko and Tymoshenko are at odds over a number of energy projects after the prime minister has banned state oil shipper UkrTransNafta from signing Caspian oil contracts on July 16, 2008.

The contracts anticipated reversing operation of Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to enable the shipment of Caspian oil from Azerbaijan to two Ukrainian oil refineries and further to Europe.