US Agency for International Development said on Tuesday the agency would soon unveil an effort to try to use US assistance to counteract Russian influence around the world, Reuters reported.

“USAID will soon unveil a Framework to help us counter malign Kremlin influence, especially in Europe and Eurasia,” the  head of the U.S. Agency for International Development Mark Green said at a hearing of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, adding that  the USAID budget request for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2020, included $584 million in State Department and USAID foreign assistance for that work, as well as efforts to “aggressively communicate” about what he called “authoritarian financing tools.”