The President's Daily Brief
June 5th, 2025: How Ukraine Used Artificial Intelligence To Strike Russia & Russia’s One Million Casualties
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
Full Episode
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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