The President's Daily Brief
June 5th, 2025: How Ukraine Used Artificial Intelligence To Strike Russia & Russia’s One Million Casualties
Thu, 05 Jun 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: A Ukrainian drone operation may have just made military history. We’ll explain how artificial intelligence could be changing the battlefield—and what it means for future conflicts. Nearly 1 million Russian troops have been killed or wounded, according to a new report. We’ll look at the staggering human cost of Putin’s war. Federal agents have detained the family of the Boulder firebombing suspect and revoked their visas. We’ll tell you what this means for the investigation. And in today’s Back of the Brief—China and Secretary of State Marco Rubio exchange sharp words on the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, underscoring a deepening rift between Beijing and the West. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. 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: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDB for 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: How many Russian troops have been casualties in Ukraine?
12 people were injured in the terror attack, with no deaths reported. When taken into custody, Solomon stated his intentions were to, quote, kill all Zionist people. The list of charges against him is extensive, with 16 counts of attempted first degree murder, two counts of using an incendiary device, and 16 additional counts of attempted use of such a weapon.
Prosecutors say that if convicted on all counts and sentenced consecutively, he could face a maximum of 624 years in prison. Now, that should do it. But the scope of the investigation has widened beyond Solomon himself. In a post on X, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said her department is actively reviewing whether members of Solomon's family had foreknowledge of the plot.
She posted, quote, Muhammad's despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, adding that investigators are determining, quote, to what extent his family may have been complicit. Now, the Boulder firebombing is only the latest example in a sharp uptick of ideologically motivated violence on U.S.
soil against Jews in the wake of Hamas's 7 October 2023 terror attack on Israel. According to the Anti-Defamation League, over 10,000 anti-Semitic incidents have been reported in the U.S. since that day.
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, drew a direct line between the Solomon case and a growing trend of anti-Jewish violence, noting the firebombing came just weeks after another assailant, also shouting, quote, free Palestine, gunned down two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. He told ABC News, quote, this is a war against people who support Israel.
It's a war against the Jewish people, and nobody should tolerate it, end quote. At the same time, anti-Muslim hate is also apparently surging. The Council on American-Islamic Relations says it has fielded more than 8,600 complaints so far since 2024, and that would be the highest number that they've ever recorded.
As federal agents work to unravel the extent of Solomon's network and motivations, officials say they're embracing for the possibility of more attacks driven by imported ideologies. All right, coming up next in the back of the brief, the 36 years, 36 years after Tiananmen Square, Beijing, well, they're still trying to erase it. And Senator Marco Rubio, well, he's not letting them.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest developments in the Boulder firebombing case?
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In today's Back of the Brief, it's been 36 years since the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, sent tanks and troops into Tiananmen Square to crush a student-led protest movement demanding political reform. Now, to this day, Beijing continues to deny or distort and censor the events of June 4th, 1989.
As a side note, I was in Southeast Asia when Tiananmen happened, and the Chinese regime's crackdown was nothing short of brutal. At the same time, the regime's fear of losing control of the population was palpable in the region. It was the closest the day had come since their revolution to losing power. On Tuesday night, U.S.
Senator Marco Rubio issued a statement marking the anniversary, saying, The world will never forget, and condemning the CCP for actively working to bury the truth. He went on to say, The courage of those who stood in Tiananmen Square reminds us that freedom, democracy, and self-rule are not just American principles. They are human principles that the CCP cannot erase."
Now, Beijing wasted no time firing back, as you might imagine. China's foreign ministry accused Rubio of maliciously distorting the facts and interfering in China's internal affairs. How dare you disrupt our efforts to erase, you know, a brutal crackdown. How dare you? Officials say they lodged a formal diplomatic complaint with the U.S. Oh, look at that.
The Chinese government's official line remains unchanged. Basically, silence and suppression. In the lead-up to the anniversary each year, Beijing locks down access to Tiananmen Square, detains potential dissidents, and scrubs the internet of any mention of what happened there. Yeah, that sounds about right. This year was no different.
Photos from Wednesday show security forces stationed across the square while the public was kept at a distance.
The actual death toll from the 1989 brutal crackdown remains unknown Hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand, were killed as tanks opened fire on unarmed demonstrators The iconic image of a lone protester standing in front of a column of tanks remains one of the most enduring photos of the 20th century But in China, well, it's almost impossible to find And that's the point.
The CCP wants the world to forget. And that's not something that should be allowed to ever happen. And that, my friends, is the President's Daily Brief for Thursday, the 5th of June. Now, if you have any questions or comments, please reach out to me at pdbatthefirsttv.com. And to listen to the show ad-free, you know you can do that, and you also know it's very simple.
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