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Chechen Leader Denies Sending Troops to Ukraine

Pro-Russian leader of restive region says any Chechens in Ukraine are there independently.

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As the fighting becomes more ferocious in eastern Ukraine, Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader is denying that he has sent in some of his famously ruthless troops to help the pro-Russia insurgents battling government forces.

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