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Vladimir Putin will never forgive Volodymyr Zelenskiy for making him look old (Admire Volodymyr Zelenskiy all you like. But please don't treat him as a heart-throb, 8 March). Putin aped the tough-guy look with his photo ops (bare-chested horse riding etc), whereas Zelenskiy has looked the part without even trying. Furthermore, Zelenskiy has displayed passion, an overused word lately, but apt here, whereas Putin can only achieve a cold dispassion, fed by vanity.
Celia Boden
Tiverton, Devon

After the delights of Wordsearch puzzles that assume all authors, professionals and politicians are male, in your print edition on Monday we had diets as the theme. In vain did I look for words like nutrition, vitamins, diabetic and vegetarian. Every answer, with the possible exception of fibre, was to do with (female) reducing diets. Time for a few female compilers, I think.
Maryjane Clifford
Wistow, Cambridgeshire