Ukraine minister dives for cover as frontline heats up
India Today
Ukraine's interior minister fled from an exposed frontline position as mortar shells landed in the fields around him.
Bent in a semi-crouch, Ukraine's interior minister ran back from an exposed frontline position, as mortar shells crashed in the fields around him.
Just minutes earlier, Denys 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 the accompanying journalists was that Moscow-backed forces are stepping up attacks along the eight-year-old frontline, amid the growing menace of a full-scale Russian invasion.
But the threat was obvious.
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As the minister, dressed in camouflage fatigues and a military helmet, walked back up an exposed road lined with abandoned vehicles, shells whistled through the air and exploded in nearby fields.
