KIEV, April 2 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that the diplomatic, political, financial and economic means of resolving the Donbas conflict must be backed up by the Ukrainian military's defensive capabilities.

"We are well aware that a solution with the use of weapons is obviously not the best. We want to resolve this conflict by diplomatic, political, financial and economic means, but these means must be backed up by the defensive capability of the Ukrainian military," Yatseniuk said at The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) foundation in Berlin on Wednesday, the Ukrainian government's press service has reported.