Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Sunday he believed the option of declaring a no-fly zone above Ukraine should not be taken off the table, a move that NATO allies so far have avoided despite repeated pleas by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy due to the risk of broader conflict with Russia.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a conference call with a bipartisan group of more than 280 congressional lawmakers, including Manchin.
"Do you support a no-fly zone?" host Chuck Todd asked, noting that doing so could lead to a wider conflict. "This is not the Russian people’s war, this is Putin’s war," Manchin said."But to take anything off the table thinking we might not be able to use things because we’ve already taken them off the table is wrong.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday the U.S. is weighing a ban on Russian oil imports"in coordination" with European and NATO allies amid bipartisan calls for a full embargo. Gutted cars following a night air raid in the village of Bushiv, 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. Russia's war on Ukraine is now in its ninth day and Russian forces have shelled Europe's largest nuclear power plant, sparking a fire there that was extinguished overnight.
"Look at the gas now $4 – it wasn’t because of this. Inflation’s already wreaked havoc on it now," he said."Basically we’re gonna say we’re gonna sit back now because we’re afraid it’s gonna go up a little bit more? It might go up anyway, and we haven’t done nothing. I’m wanting to at least do something and whatever it will take, we’re going to ramp up our energy, produce the oil, the natural gas, build the pipelines. We’ve been stymied.
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