The head of Russia's mercenary outfit Wagner said it could take months to capture the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut and slammed Moscow's "monstrous bureaucracy" for slowing military gains. Widening riftPrigohzin, who is close to Putin, said the speed of Russian progress in the grinding battle would depend on whether Ukraine continued to send reserves to hold the city. "I came to say: Israel stands by Ukraine and by the Ukrainian people in their difficult time," Cohen wrote on Twitter