Can someone help me here?? Mariupol is being destroyed.. lack of food water etc.. Can the UN

[Peacetrain]

fly and drop needed foodstuffs to the people in Mariupol?? There is no sealed airways from the UN??

theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/mariupol-bombing-ukraine-before-and-after-satellite-images-map-russian-attack-residential-maternity-childrens-hospital

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. Russia would have to agree to humanitarian fiights into Ukraine

otherwise, the Russians would shoot down any aircraft crossing the Ukrainian border.

[Chuuku Davis]

14. This is the answer

putin will not allow it.

[nycbos]

2. The UN has advied staff to not call what's happening a war.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/united-nations-advises-staff-against-using-war-or-invasion-regarding-ukraine-1.4821438

[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. That has been debunked.

https://www.businessinsider.com/un-denies-report-staff-warning-not-call-russian-ukraine-war-2022-3

UN denies report that staff were warned not to call Russian attack on Ukraine a 'war' or 'invasion'

[Walleye]

3. I'm trying to remember how the Berlin airlift worked

Safe travel corridors?

[Peacetrain]

4. Yep ,that crossed my mind also..the UN was established in 45

and the airlift was 48 or 49 somewhere in that vicinity

[snowybirdie]

8. Airlift was well after

shooting ended in WWII. 1948/49. Russia blockaded Berlin, but there was no war, no shooting or bombing. Very different from now unfortunately.

[Abnredleg]

9. And Enforced up by the US Military

The Soviets didn’t block the corridors because we had the military might to prevent them from doing so. No UN aircraft will fly in the Ukraine unless either the Russians agree to it, or we impose a no-fly zone.

[brush]

11. The war was over during the Berlin airlift.

The West is going to have to do something or we're going to see a horrendous humanitarian crisis of people dying of thirst, starvation and exposure. And it won't be in just one city.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. The Berlin airlift involved airfields planes could land at

and the Russians weren't flying fighter planes that might well shoot down the transport planes. It's quite a different situation.

[Jazz Jon]

6. UN Should Try

The UN should try to do this.

Unfortunately, Russia can veto anything in the UN. It would be nice to kick Russia out of the UN. There are, unbelievably, other UN countries that would not kick Russia out.

Some countries should put forward a motion to provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine, regardless.

What would happen if a sizable block of countries said there will be humanitarian aide regardless of Russias veto? It should be tried. I don't think Putin will pull the nuclear trigger because food was dropped (although he will lie like a bastard about whatever happens).

[Peacetrain]

7. You make a good point! they should at least try and force Russia to defend itself on a international

stage.. so that its people can get some of the truth of the actions being committed in Ukraine by the Russians.. for the life of me, this just seems like it should be a UN action..

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

10. Countries can do things independently of the UN if they wanted

But few countries have the airlift capability to move a large amount of material outside of their territories. And those that do aren't likely willing to send their aircraft into the area without Russia's ok or Western military support.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. The UN does not own a fleet of planes

It has neither an airline nor an air force. UN aid programmes need normal transport, either civilian or military, provided by countries or private companies.

I don't know what a "sealed airway" is, let alone how it relates to the UN.