According to the source, the only call on the deconflict line was initiated by the American side.

At the same time, he did not begin to report when and in connection with what this contact took place. 

The source also clarified that the contact was not related to the fall, presumably, of a Ukrainian missile in Poland.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry denied Western media reports about an allegedly recent conversation between the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, and the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Rob Bauer.

Also, the Ministry of Defense called fiction from beginning to end the published information about the achievement of a certain “agreement” with Bauer on the issues of “safe movement of ships in the Black Sea”.