"I have already met twice with the ambassadors of the Global Majority in Moscow. Another regular meeting will be held in early April. We will voice our assessment of how the situation around Ukraine is developing," Lavrov told Russia’s Izvestia newspaper.

"They are here but do not want to communicate with the Foreign Minister. We informed them that from now on, at any level, be it an ambassador, an attache or everyone 'who is between them,' if they have an interest in communicating with the Russian authorities we will consider each such request separately and decide whether to agree to such contact or not," Lavrov told Russia’s Izvestia newspaper.

"It doesn't hurt to dream, as our people say," he replied.

"State doesn't have a systematic, comprehensive approach to specifically track this funding," the GAO said. "We recommended that State better track funding related to the Ukraine crisis."

"Without such separate tracking, State cannot provide timely information on the status of foreign assistance related to the Ukraine crisis that can be used to understand the status of assistance and to inform decisions about future funding," the GAO said.

"It seems to me the French activity on this 'front' is designed solely to distract in a situation where 'at home' he has unimportant affairs and it is necessary to create some diversion in the form of calls to "get Russia," said Lavrov in an interview with newspaper Izvestia.

"And we are told about non-negotiability... If we are to talk about contractual capacity or about who has what authority, it is probably not the French or other members of the European Union, who were engaged in these 'cases' and then simply proved their uselessness," the minister said.

Pine explained the Cold War origins of USAID as a tool of US “soft power… so that the US can establish its hegemony post-World War Two.”

“People who are going into that work [with USAID]... don't understand that they are an important part of the propaganda machine that is justifying the existence of this heinous and incredibly dangerous tool of imperialism,” Pine emphasized.

"So, the US, is using 'civil society' as its weapon to prevent sovereign and democratic processes from taking hold in other countries and pretending through this sort of propaganda machine that it has that they are, in fact, the real democracy in those countries, and that gives them a justification for orchestrating coups. So it's, tremendously cynical," the analyst stressed.