'Massive strategic failure': Kherson pullback is Putin's latest battlefield humiliation

Russian military commanders said Wednesday their troops will retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson and set up defensive lines on the other side of the Dnieper River, marking perhaps the most embarrassing defeat for Moscow so far in the eight-month war and fueling hope that Ukraine may actually be able to recapture the bulk of its territory now in the hands of Russia and pro-Moscow separatist groups.