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Bent in a semi-crouch Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky ran back from an exposed frontline position, as mortar shells crashed in the fields around him. Just minutes earlier, Monastyrsky had told reporters: “We are ready for any scenario at any time.” On Saturday, the scenario was a surprise mortar barrage after he met troops and inspected trenches and bunkers outside Novoluganske, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. The message for accompanying journalists was that Moscow-backed forces are stepping up attacks along the eight-year-old front line, amid the growing menace of a full-scale Russian invasion. Yet the threat was obvious. As the ....