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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, denied a report in the Israeli press on Friday which said that Russian military forces in Syria had fired at Israeli air force aircraft on two undated occasions."I don't want to comment on the Israeli press. The Israeli press's reports in this case are far from reality," Peskov was quoted telling reporters by Russia's Tass news.Peskov was responding to a report published in Friday's edition of the Israeli Yediot Aharanot newspaper which said on two occasions Russian forces fired at Israeli military aircraft. Something which the report indicates compelled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's to go to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin."I think there are understandable reasons for these intensive contacts [between Russia and Israel], given the complicated situation in the region," Putin said in a clear reference to the communications mechanism in place between the two countries military's.Peskov dubbed the ensuing three-hour meeting between the two leaders "very useful and very substantive.""It comprised three formats: A narrow-format meeting, negotiations at the level of delegations and a tete-a-tete talk," Peskov explained.At the meeting Netanyahu again insisted that the Golan Heights region will remain sovereign Israeli territory. Peskov says that Russia disagrees with this stance."The Russian position does not change, is in compliance with the corresponding resolutions of the [United Nations] Security Council and has no new aspects," Peskov said.