Dear editor:

Surely the Red Cross and UNHCR (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) must demand that Russia allow allied bombers to bomb food and water for the besieged people of Mariupol and other areas of Ukraine.

This is what  happened in 1945 when the Dutch were starving under Nazi occupation. It was part of the terms of capitulation.

In this case it could be as part of the conditions of Russia's participation in world trade etc.

My late brother-in-law (an RAF pilot) said that it was the best bombing run he ever made. 

Elizabeth Oliver-Malone

NOTL