Make this carnage stop

Thank you so much for the brilliant article by Mark Edele (“Inside Vladimir Putin’s paranoia”, March 5-11). The dreadful scenes of slaughter and suffering in Ukraine are heart-wrenchingly sad. And no sane person wants a wider war in Europe. But how long can the world continue to witness Ukraine being bombed, resulting in the mass killings of innocent civilians and reducing Ukraine’s cities to rubble? I hope international pressure, sanctions and Ukrainian resistance halts this terrible carnage. Tolerating these atrocities is a totally untenable situation. Putin’s attempt to restore Russia’s empire is being built over the dead bodies of children, women and men. In the name of justice and humanity, this must end. As Calgacus rightly said, “These plunderers of the world … they call empire and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” – Steven Katsineris, Hurstbridge, Vic