Over in the US, politicians have been discussing the idea of a no-fly zone – as urged by President Zelensky and other prominent Ukrainians – on the Sunday talk shows.
Senator Marco Rubio, the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on CNN Sunday that a no-fly zone means “starting World War Three”.
“People need to understand what a no-fly zone means. It’s not some rule that you pass that everybody has to oblige by. It’s the willingness to shoot down the aircraft of the Russian Federation,” he said.
He added that he believes it makes “no sense” to continue to import oil from Russia, which he said is being used to fund the war in Ukraine.
Another Senator, Connecticut Democrat Christopher Murphy, said on Fox that he believes that it is not in American or European interests to enforce a no-fly zone.
Doing could lead to “the two world’s biggest, most equipped nuclear superpowers – going to war directly against each other”.
However a third Senator, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, told NBC that he wouldn’t reject the idea of a no-fly zone.
“I would take nothing off the table,” he said.
