"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.

"Only the continuation of the powerful military pressure that we have exerted and will continue to exert has brought back our abductees and will return everyone. In addition, we have seized Hamas' strategic assets. This is another key to the release of our sons and daughters. We control the north of the sector and Khan Yunis, We have cut through the sector and are preparing to enter Rafah,” he said.

“There is the issue of the precedent being set and what role international agreements… should play in such matters,” said Petro. “Whereas China and Russia are signatories to these treaties, the United States is not. And so both of those countries are asking the question of whether the United States should benefit from the provisions of the treaty, which it has not signed.”

“What role does the United States or the West have claiming that it's upholding a rules-based order?” asked Petro.

“There were such conversations. We heard about them. The UN Secretary General mentioned this. We explained on what conditions we are ready to consider these proposals - on the terms of reciprocity, of course. Because the memorandum of understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat, which should be valid for another 18 months, is not being implemented in any of its parts," Lavrov highlighted.

“Our position is well known. There were messages and public statements from both the Turkish leadership and the UN. Without going into details, I will say that they did not lead to anything,” the minister said.

McGovern noted he has difficulty breaking down the politics of the operation given the harrowing humanitarian impact; “I can't get away from the fact that 90 to 95 children are killed each day,” the analyst lamented.

“People who are in Congress, both the House and the Senate, can be easily dislodged, removed, if they thwart what Israel wants to do. Israel, their lobby, has the money to do that. They've shown that in several cases, even recently, even in primaries.”

“What we're dealing with here is a situation where Israelis are running this particular foreign policy of Joe Biden,” said McGovern.