U.S. lawmakers say they are largely opposed to a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress on Sunday emphasised what has grow to be a broadly held place on Capitol Hill: that the US ought to reply to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by banning Russian oil imports, however not by imposing a no-fly zone over the nation that would draw nuclear powers into warfare.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike took that place on a wide range of Sunday morning tv information packages.

“It is senseless in anyway to proceed to purchase oil from Russia that they use to fund this warfare and this murderous marketing campaign that they’re enterprise,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the highest Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, mentioned on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He added that there was help for supplying Ukraine with provides and plane after the nation’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, made that request to Congress on Saturday.

However Mr. Rubio and others mentioned the dangers of the US imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine — as Mr. Zelensky additionally requested — had been too nice. On ABC’s “This Week,” Mr. Rubio mentioned that transfer would draw the US straight into the warfare between Ukraine and Russia, beginning a battle between two nuclear-armed powers.

“It means beginning World Conflict III,” Mr. Rubio mentioned, including that “folks want to know what a no-fly zone means. It’s not some rule you cross that everyone has to oblige by. It’s the willingness to shoot down the plane of the Russian Federation.”

Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, agreed on “Fox Information Sunday”: “I don’t assume it’s in our curiosity, the curiosity of Europe, to have the US and Russia — the 2 world’s largest, most outfitted nuclear superpowers — going to warfare straight in opposition to one another.”

Mr. Murphy mentioned he anticipated Congress would cross a $10 billion emergency spending invoice this week to offer extra arms and humanitarian help to Ukraine, in response to requests by Ukrainian officers for added help.

The $10 billion proposal contains $4.8 billion in extra funds for the Pentagon to cowl the deployment of U.S. troops to NATO international locations, elevated intelligence and cybersecurity help and to replenish the weapons the Protection Division has already despatched to Ukraine, reminiscent of Stinger missiles. It additionally contains $4.25 billion in new funding for financial and humanitarian help for Ukrainians, together with the 1.5 million refugees who’ve already fled from the bombarded nation.

“We have to make it possible for we’re reinforcing Ukraine and offering as a lot deadly support as potential,” Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, mentioned on “Fox Information Sunday,” including that the US also needs to reinforce humanitarian support, “ensuring that we’re capable of present for these refugees that can be flowing into Europe.”

There was one notable exception to the rejection of the no-fly-zone proposal. Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, mentioned on NBC’s “Meet The Press”: “I’d take nothing off the desk.”

“For us to hesitate, or for anybody to hesitate within the free world is improper,” Mr. Manchin mentioned of taking extra steps to attempt to deter Russian aggression.

The feedback got here a day after Mr. Zelensky spoke with greater than 300 members of Congress, imploring them to ban the importation of Russian oil and to ship extra jets to his nation.