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Yatsenyuk on BBC HARDtalk: ‘If Russia wages war, we will defend our country’

By BBC.

Published April 5, 2014 at 12:01 pm

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk delivers a speech during a convention of Batkivshchyna (\"Fatherland\") party in Kiev on March 29, 2014. Ukraine's controversial opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, has formally joined the race to become the country's president, on the same day as the huge task facing the new leadership was underscored by a tough IMF aid package that will foist deep austerity on the country. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV

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In an exclusive interview Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has told BBC HARDtalk that if Russia "wages war" on Ukraine, then it will "resist and retaliate."

"We will protect our country with all means and tools that we have in our hands," Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on BBC’s HARDTalk on April 4.