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Today's show, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy's appeal falls short, at least for now.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

Less than 24 hours after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's video addressed to Congress,

most lawmakers remain firmly opposed to a no-fly zone, fearing escalation with Russia,

and Democratic allies of the Biden administration.

From Senate Majority whip Dick Durbin to swing state freshman Senator Mark Kelly,

continue to push back against Zelensky's desired fighter jet transfer.

But Democratic lawmakers aren't united on the latter by any means.

For example, Senator Richard Blumenthal, who visited the Poland-Ukraine border in recent days,

is one of the latest to vocalize his support for the transfer.

But as we mentioned back on Monday, in the past couple of weeks,

Congress has been successful in forcing President Joe Biden's hand on Ukraine, in the past couple of weeks, Congress has been successful

enforcing President Joe Biden's hand on Ukraine, largely because they've been united,

all the way up to top levels of leadership. Right now, they're still fractured on this issue.

The question though, will that pushback hold? That's hard to say, especially when we're seeing

headlines about Russian forces, shooting Ukrainian civilians standing in a bedline, or bombing a theater, where hundreds were sheltering, and where Ukrainians had

specifically denoted the war children in large letters to signal to bombers to stay away.

What's more? At least one Democratic leader, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer himself,

has supported the transfer of these planes before. In a March 5th statement after his Zoom with Zelensky, he said, quote, these planes are

very much needed, and I will do all I can to help the administration to facilitate their

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