June 5th, 2025: How Ukraine Used Artificial Intelligence To Strike Russia & Russia’s One Million Casualties
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What is the significance of Ukraine's drone strike?
It's Thursday, the 5th of June. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. We'll start things off with a story that could mark a turning point in modern warfare and battlefield strategy. Ukraine's devastating drone strike on Russian bombers could be the first time that artificial intelligence has been used to carry out a large-scale military operation. Later in the show, a new report estimates that nearly 1 million Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Ukraine. We'll break down the numbers and what they reveal about the true cost of Russia's invasion. Plus, new fallout from the Boulder firebombing. The suspect's entire family has been detained by federal agents and stripped of their visas. And in today's Back of the Brief, China and Secretary of State Marco Rubio trade sharp words on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, highlighting the deepening divide between Beijing and Washington.
Yeah, the Chinese regime, frankly, remains very sensitive about that whole brutal suppression of student protests and Tiananmen thing. They hate to be reminded about how they almost lost control of their population. But first, today's PDB Spotlight. We'll begin with an update on Ukraine's drone attack deep in the heart of Russian territory on Sunday and how artificial intelligence played a critical role in making the crippling strikes possible. As we've been reporting, Ukraine's security service, the SBU, used more than 100 drones to strike four Russian military bases simultaneously. The attacks damaged a number of Moscow's critical air assets in an embarrassing blow to the Kremlin's strategic bomber capabilities.
Now, while the scale of the damage is still being independently assessed, the attack showed a level of sophistication on the part of Ukrainian intelligence that stunned even Kyiv's closest allies, particularly as the drones were assembled and launched from inside Russia, apparently right under the nose of the FSB. We're now learning that the drone Blitz also leveraged artificial intelligence tools to ensure that they reached their intended targets and successfully detonated, even if the remote operator for that drone lost their signal. In a statement on Wednesday, officials with Ukraine's SBU said, quote, During the operation, modern UAV control technology was used, which combines autonomous artificial intelligence algorithms and manual operator intervention, end quote.
While each of the 117 drones were reportedly individually piloted by a separate operator, the officials noted that, quote, during the flight, some drones lost signal and switched to performing a mission using artificial intelligence along a pre-planned route. After approaching and contacting a specifically designated target, the warhead was automatically activated, end quote. Officials with the SBUs released new footage on Wednesday as evidence of this significant achievement in modern warfare, which shattered the myth that Moscow's core military assets, including their nuclear delivery systems, are beyond Ukraine's reach. The videos show the AI-assisted drones hitting the engines, antennas, and wings of multiple long-range bombers and reconnaissance aircrafts at four military airfields located thousands of kilometers inside Russia, including one in Siberia.
The targeted bases are home to Russia's strategic long-range bomber fleet, which are frequently used to bombard Ukrainian cities and target critical infrastructure with ballistic and cruise missiles. The SBU reported that 41 Russian aircraft were hit in the strikes, including Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 strategic bombers, both nuclear-capable, as well as A-50 early warning aircraft. Those are basically versions of the U.S. AWACS. They claim that the strikes disabled 34% of Russia's cruise missile bomber fleet and caused roughly $7 billion worth of damage. Now, as of Wednesday, journalists and open source intelligence experts using verified video and satellite imagery have only been able to confirm the destruction of 13 aircraft, including 11 strategic bombers, according to reports in Politico and The Washington Post.
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