 The Armenian government, along with the Soviet media, including "Pravda" and the "Moskovskiye Novosti", condemned the operation and described the acts of violence carried out by the army and OMON as excessive and unnecessary; the operation continued until the first week of May.On 7 May, a second operation was conducted by the same units, this time in the northern Armenian town of Voskepar.Under the same pretext as the previous operation, the joint forces entered Armenia with tanks and other armored vehicles, claiming that militia units were staging attacks from that area into Azerbaijan.