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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

Welcome to the show. If you've been following the news, you will know that Congress approved,

finally, about $60 billion in aid to Ukraine. Washington is now racing to use those funds to get military supplies to the war's front

lines. And it cannot come soon enough. In just the last week, Russian troops have captured

several villages near the eastern city of Avdivka. Moscow's reportedly been trying to advance

its troops as far as possible into Ukrainian territory

ahead of May 9. That's the highly symbolic anniversary of Victory Day, when the Soviet

Union announced victory over Nazi Germany. Now, amid this onslaught, Kiev has struggled to

maintain its lines of resistance. In fact, until Congress agreed

to send more aid, Ukrainian soldiers had been severely rationing their use of ammunition, by some

accounts firing just one shell for every dozen or so by the Russians. The question now, with new

US funding finally secured, is what military gear Kyiv is going to ask to prioritize.

And then the question is how that impacts the war effort. And subsequently, if it improves

Ukraine's position, even a little bit, what that means for the likelihood of any diplomatic advances. Well, earlier today, I spoke with

someone who thinks about these questions all the time. Dmitro Kaleba is Ukraine's Minister of Foreign

Affairs. He spoke to me from his office in Kiev. We usually drop new episodes on Fridays,

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