KIEV, May 6 – Ukraine should decide within the next two weeks on the schedule for replacing supplies of Russian crude with Caspian Sea oil via the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.

Reversing the use of the pipeline is an ambitious goal Yushchenko has set in order to cut Ukraine’s heavy dependence on Russian energy imports, and may improve security of energy shipments to the European Union.