Top Ukrainian military officials came under a shelling attack while touring the line dividing government forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine, according to an Associated Press journalist who was on the tour. The shelling prompted the military officials to seek refuge in a bomb shelter before leaving the area, according to the report. The Epoch Times has been unable to independently verify the report. Incidents of shelling along the front line in the conflict zone increased sharply this week, with the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) announcing on Friday it had observed a “dramatic increase in kinetic activity along the contact line in eastern Ukraine.” In its most recent daily incident report, issued on Feb. 18, the SMM recorded a total of 870 ceasefire violations in the separatist-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions, up from 591 the day before. The Ukrainian military said a soldier was killed in shelling by …