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It's Thursday, November 6th.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed. First up, the deputy chairman of Russia's parliamentary defense committee claimed this week that the Kremlin has sent advanced air defense systems to the Nicholas Maduro regime in Venezuela, while floating

the possibility of also sending cruise and hypersonic missiles to Venezuela. Someone should maybe give

Putin a quick briefing on the history of the Cuban missile crisis. Later in the show, Ukraine's

intensifying drone campaign against Russian energy continues. Keev says Ukrainian

drones struck a major oil refinery in Russia's VolgaGrad region for the second time in almost

three months, while a separate strike hit a major power plant deep in Russia's northeast. I'll have

those details. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. Moscow may be officially

entering the fray in Venezuela, with a move that could seriously ratchet up tensions with the U.S.

Earlier this week, Alexei Zoravlia, the deputy chairman of Russia's parliamentary defense committee,

said in an interview that, quote, the Americans may be in for

some surprises when it comes to the Trump administration's escalating military standoff with

Venezuela. He claimed that Moscow has recently provided the Maduro regime with advanced air

defense systems and that the Kremlin hasn't ruled out sending crews and even hypersonic missiles

to Caracas,

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