Russian President Vladimir Putin is “open to peace” but “D.C. warmongers” want to extend the conflict in Ukraine, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said in explaining why he opposes the $60 billion aid package for Ukraine.

“Vladimir Putin wants out of this – you heard that on Tucker Carlson,” Tuberville told Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow during an appearance on the network Monday to discuss the Senate bill that ties funding for Ukraine and Israel to border security provisions.

“We need to get this over with for the American people, and for the Ukrainians and the Russians … but nobody wants to talk about it,” Tuberville said, referring to diplomacy. “They have no clue up here [in Washington] about that.

If the package were to pass, the $60 billion “wouldn’t make a difference” in the Ukrainian army’s effort to repel Russia from its border, Tuberville said.

“It’s not an immediate help,” he told Kudlow. “Ukraine can’t win.”

Tuberville comments came three days after Carlson’s sit-down interview with Putin, the Russian president’s first with a Western media figure since the war with Ukraine began.

The interview “shows that Russia is open to a peace agreement, while it is DC warmongers who want to prolong the war. That is why I’m voting to stop 60 BILLION MORE of our tax dollars to this conflict,” Tuberville tweeted.

Lawmakers have cast the aid as a direct investment in American interests to ensure global stability. The package would allot roughly $60 billion to Ukraine, and about a third of that would be spent replenishing the U.S. military with the weapons and equipment that are sent to Kyiv.

“These are the enormously high stakes of the supplemental package: our security, our values, our democracy,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. as he opened the chamber. “It is a down payment for the survival of Western democracy and the survival of American values.”

Schumer worked closely with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kent., for months searching for a way to win favor in the House for tens of billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine. But after the carefully negotiated Senate compromise that included border policy collapsed last week, Republicans have been deeply divided on the legislation.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Virginia Democrat, traveled to Kyiv last week with a bipartisan group that included Reps. Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, as well as French Hill, R-Ark., Jason Crow, D-Colo. and Zach Nunn, R-Iowa.

Spanberger said the trip underscored to her how Ukraine is still in a fight for its very existence. As the group traveled through Kyiv in armored vehicles, they witnessed signs of an active war, from sandbagged shelters to burned-out cars and memorials to those killed. During a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the U.S. lawmakers tried to offer assurances the American people still stood with his country.

“He was clear that our continued support is critical to their ability to win the war,” Spanberger said. “It’s critical to their own freedom. And importantly, it’s critical to U.S. national security interests.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.