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A loud explosion and sounds of heavy fighting have been reported in Chechnya’s capital of Grozny, according to sources on Twitter and some media outlets in the region. Multiple sources on Twitter are reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motorcade has been seen pulling into the Kremlin in the middle of the night, around the time the unrest unfolded in Grozny.

<p>YKTYVKAR, Russia - All the men in Major Igor Nevzorov's crack antiterrorism unit won medals for valor under fire when they led the Russian troops who stormed into Chechnya's capital, Grozny, two years ago.</p> <p>But when their commanders ordered them back to the war-wrecked separatist region last month, Nevzorov and his men refused to go.</p>