11.   Their path was blocked by Russian troops and armoured vehicles.

12.   Troops and militants traded intermittent gunfire all night as the security forces dispatched reinforcements and armoured vehicles to the area, they said.

13.   They were seized at Kasindolska checkpoint -- the same checkpoint where Bosnian vice-premier Hakija Turajlic was killed in January last year while travelling in a UN armoured vehicle.

14.   Ukrainian officials denied reports that armoured vehicles and backup troops had been sent to Simferopol, or that a curfew would be imposed here.

15.   UN French armoured vehicles returned fire.

16.   On Saturday night, journalists at the US embassy reported loud explosions shortly after the passage of an ECOMOG armoured vehicle.

17.   On Monday, for example, Danish soldiers aboard three UN armoured vehicles spent several hours at an army checkpoint trying to prove their identity to suspicious Bosnian soldiers.

18.   One Chechen rebel commander said several Russian soldiers were killed and armoured vehicles destroyed.

19.   On Sunday morning, three columns of Russian armoured vehicles and tanks invaded Chechnya from Russian Caucasian republics to the west and north east.

20.   Police armoured vehicles searched for the militants who fled across the fields.