The agreement of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia on the cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the region is not related to the incident with the downed Russian Mi-24 helicopter, TASS reported referring to the Russian president's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

“Work on the agreement began long before the incident,” a Kremlin spokesman said, answering the question whether the situation with the Russian helicopter influenced the agreement on the cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.