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The Russian military has launched missiles at Ukrainian airfields and hit command posts and aviation equipment, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The russian account, obviously, for precisely, you know, where he went. but the suggestion is it is forward command posts, not necessarily bakhmut. police in australia say they've made what's thought to be the country's biggest ever drug bust, seizing cocaine with a street value of a billion us dollars. the joint operation with the united states has led to 12 arrests linked to a mexican cartel. australian police had been following the delivery for months and at the last minute substituted the cargo with fake drugs. from sydney, phil mercer reports. australian police say the drugs were intercep...

Defense industrial base. doug bush is the army's head of acquisitions. >> right now we're meeting demand. of course i'd want to be faster. even does. but there is a time factor a year to 18 months is often what you are looking at. >> reporter: bush says this is the greatest rampup in military production possibly going back to the korean war. >> we realized we had to put our foot all the way to the floor. >> reporter: the goal in two years is to produce five times more artillery rounds each month, twice as many javelin anti-tank missiles, 30% more rounds for the himars launchers. precision weap...

Long-range loitering munitions, something similar to the iranian drones. they need to be able to go back beyond the himars range and go after the russian supply depots and command posts that have been moved out of range. and they need the intelligence to go after the improved russian defenses. and i hear some military advisers saying you know, the ukrainians have to understand they can't beat the russians are artillery, ba, ba, ba, you can't match them two for two. that may be what we say because we don't have that artillery. but this war is rapidly evolving into a world war i kind of trench w...

Some senior military officials who describe in some detail the exact tactics they were using for months, to use long-range missiles to target russian ammunition depots there, command posts, and they made it essentially impossible for russians to remain in that city. so i think the ukrainians believe that is the only way they're going to get to some kind of position where maybe they'll be ready for talks. at this point, for them it's all about liberating more territory the same way they've been doing it, by military means on the battleground. >> and you have spent a lot of time in country at th...