The Irish Times view on the war in Ukraine: the West debates how best to support Kyiv

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Multilateral contacts and diplomacy on the Ukraine war are intensifying, perhaps ahead of setting out conditions for negotiating an end to the conflict ahead of any actual talks. Such talks will depend on military outcomes, but political preparedness is indispensable. In the meantime this terrible war continues, passing its 500th day. with the estimated loss of the lives of 9,000 civilians and more fierce fighting in prospect. Diplomatic contacts are also in the spotlight. Reports that Chinese president Xi Jinping warned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin against any use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine when they met in Moscow last...