on 4 january the omon seized the telephone exchange in vecmīlgrāvis, it is speculated that it was because the telephone lines the omon were using were cut off. thereafter, the omon seized the ministry of internal affairs but the phone wasn't cut off for fear that the omon would attack the international telephone exchange. contrary to omon officer claims boris karlovich pugo and mikhail gorbachev both claimed they were not informed of this attack. meanwhile, the soviet military was on the move - that same day an intelligence unit arrived in riga.