On October 4, commenting on Politico’s publication about the meeting of diplomats of the Russian Federation, the United States, and the EU before the latest events in Nagorno-Karabakh, Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary of the Russian President, told reporters that there were contacts, but these are not the negotiations mentioned in the publication’s material.

"Not exactly as they describe it. There are a lot of inaccuracies, a lot of mistakes in this material," the Kremlin representative noted. He added that there were contacts, but not as described in the Politico material. "There were certain contacts on Karabakh, they naturally took place, but these are not the negotiations written about there," Peskov said.

Notably, Politico, recently, citing sources, reported that diplomats from the Russian Federation, the United States, and the EU, two days before the start of the Azerbaijani military operation in the region, held a meeting in Turkey to discuss resolving the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.