Wagner boss claims full-scale Ukrainian counteroffensive underway in Bakhmut.

Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that Ukraine's counteroffensive is in "full swing," despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's comments about delaying major operations. Ukrainian forces reported counterattacks near the war-torn city of Bakhmut, forcing some Russian soldiers to retreat. However, Ukrainian officials have cautioned that the offensives mentioned by Prigozhin are nothing more than a "positional struggle" and don't reflect a broader counteroffensive. A major assault, aimed at liberating occupied land in eastern and southern Ukraine, would follow a Russian offensive earlier this year that failed to produce notable territorial results.