Ukraine live briefing: Zelensky says counteroffensive hasn’t started. Wagner’s chief disagrees.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Wagner head Yevgeniy Prigozhin shared conflicting reports on the much-anticipated Ukrainian spring counteroffensive, with Zelensky saying his country needed to wait for more equipment to arrive and that starting the campaign now would result in “unacceptable” losses.

Prigozhin, meanwhile, said the Ukrainians were “in full swing,” attacking his forces’ flanks in Bakhmut. “Unfortunately, in some places they are successful,” Prigozhin said. “All the units that have received the necessary training, weapons, equipment, tanks, everything else — they are already fully engaged.”