diff --git a/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi b/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
index 85e1eaaa7..82cd735bd 100644
--- a/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ class XMLPullParser:
     def __init__(self, events: Sequence[str] | None = ..., *, _parser: XMLParser | None = ...) -> None: ...
     def feed(self, data: str | bytes) -> None: ...
     def close(self) -> None: ...
-    def read_events(self) -> Iterator[tuple[str, Element]]: ...
+    # Second element in the tuple could be `Element`, `tuple[str, str]` or `None`.
+    # Use `Any` to avoid false-positive errors.
+    def read_events(self) -> Iterator[tuple[str, Any]]: ...
 
 def XML(text: str | bytes, parser: XMLParser | None = ...) -> Element: ...
 def XMLID(text: str | bytes, parser: XMLParser | None = ...) -> tuple[Element, dict[str, Element]]: ...