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at least ### russian armored vehicles were speeding sunday at noon -lrb- #### gmt -rrb- towards the chechnya capital grozny , an afp journalist reported from znamenskoye -lrb- eds : correct -rrb- , ## kilometres -lrb- ## miles -rrb- northwest of grozny .
russian armored vehicles racing to grozny