-Putin's top military commander said troops will retreat from Kherson on orders from Russian Defence Minister

-Troops will leave 'in the near future' and take up positions across Dnipro River, General Sergei Surovikin said

-Giving up the city - capital of a region Putin annexed to Russia just weeks ago - is the most humiliating loss yet

-General Surovikin said city was impossible to defend as Ukraine's armed forces continue to counterattack

-Order to retreat came just hours after the Russian-installed head of the Kherson region was killed in car crash

-Kirill Stremousov, 45, is believed to have died when his Lexus was involved in a collision with a truck

-Images released by Russian state media purported to show the twisted remains of his car lying in the road

This is the moment Russia's top commander was ordered to withdraw from Kherson, after admitting the city is impossible to defend in the face of Ukrainian advances.