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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | November 14th, 2025: Kyiv Torches Critical Russian Oil Hub & Trump’s 'Southern Spear' Tightens the Noose Around Maduro
14 Nov 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First—Ukraine is once again hitting Moscow where it hurts most—its oil revenue. A precision drone and missile strike on Friday crippled the second-largest oil export hub in Russia, forcing closures at a facility that moves millions of barrels of crude a day. Later in the show—The Pentagon unveils Operation Southern Spear, a task force aimed at dismantling narco-terrorist networks across the Western Hemisphere. The announcement comes as President Trump receives an updated menu of military options against Venezuela. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold TriTails Premium Beef: Feed your legacy. Visit https://trybeef.com/pdb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Well, look at that, we've made it through to the end of another week. 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, Kiev just hit one of Russia's most important Black Sea oil terminals with a significant drone attack, disrupting one of the biggest energy lifelines currently fueling the Kremlin's war machine.
Later in the show, the Pentagon unveils Operation Southern Spear. Because is it really an operation if it doesn't have a cool name? Well, now you got one. Southern Spear is a new, or at least sort of new, task force aimed at dismantling narco-terrorist networks across the Western Hemisphere. The announcement comes as President Trump receives an updated menu of military options against Venezuela.
I'll have those details. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. Kyiv just unleashed one of their most consequential attacks on Russian oil infrastructure this year, part of their intensifying campaign to starve the Kremlin of their most vital source of wartime revenue.
Ukrainian drones and missiles struck the strategic Black Sea port of Novorossiysk early Friday morning, crippling Russia's second largest oil export hub, one that moves a massive share of Russian crude to global markets.
The operation hit multiple sites across the port complex, damaging fuel-loading facilities, and at least one vessel docked at the oil terminal, according to a report from Reuters. While we've been tracking escalating Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy sites for weeks, it's hard to overstate the impact of Friday's strikes. Novorossiysk isn't just another port.
It's one of Moscow's primary gateways for moving crude to India and China and parts of southeastern Europe. and today's operation sent an immediate shockwave through that system. The attack sparked fires, triggered evacuations, caused Russia's state pipeline operator Transneft to temporarily halt crude flows through the facility, and forced Moscow to halt seaborne oil exports.
Energy analysts told Reuters that roughly 2.2 million barrels per day of capacity was disrupted. It's a volume that represents close to 2% of global supply. It was enough to spike global oil prices by more than 2% on Friday over fears of a supply shortage.
Officials with the Ukrainian general staff said significant damage was caused to, quote, valuable infrastructure at the port and oil terminal, and that a launcher from Russia's S-400 air defense system was also destroyed in the attack.
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