Psaki says Washington not interested in getting into World War Three

A no-fly zone would require potentially shooting down Russian planes, US White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki said at a regular briefing, Report informs, citing foreign media.

"And if we were President Zelensky, we would be asking for everything possible as well and continuing to ask for it, because he is watching his country and his people be attacked and brutalized by President Putin and the Russian military. But how President Biden makes decisions is through the prism of our own national security. And as we’ve said before, a no-fly zone would require implementation, it would require us potentially shooting down Russian planes, NATO shooting down Russian planes. And we are not interested in getting into World War Three," Psaki said when asked to comment on Zelensky's next appeal on establishing a no-fly zone.

"A humanitarian no-fly zone can be specific geography or a portion of Western — or parts of Ukraine, whereas a no-fly zone — sometimes people refer to it as the totality of the country. In our view and the view of the military, there’s not a difference in terms of the implementation and the escalatory impact," she said.