Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson Maria Zakharova has called the statements by the secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Alen Simonyan, according to which the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) did not respond to Yerevan's inquiries, a "fiction."

This is how Zakharova commented to Lenta.ru on the three-line Russian-language poem publicized by Simonyan, in which the CSTO is criticized. "In fact, it is a quatrain. The last line sounds like this: 'Simonyan invented a fiction,'" the Russian MFA spokesperson said.

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov had reported on Wednesday that the heads of the CSTO member states have deprived Armenia of its voting rights in the organization.

He had added that Yerevan has not fulfilled its relevant obligations for several years. In response, Alen Simonyan posted this three-line poem—in Russian—on Telegram: “They deprived us of our voice there, Where everyone was loudly silent, When they were killing us in solidarity.”