They need to be absolutely vicious and ruthless in retaking Kherson. Take no prisoners. Cause them to flee, or shoot them dead in the streets. Terrorize them with drone strikes. Target infantry in their sleep. The counter offensive needs to be brutal and terrifying.
Ideally, as the Ukrainians advance, the citizens in Kherson would join in the frey and gut the Russians from inside out. Hard to know if they have the weaponry to do it, but a slaughter from inside the city, in conjunction with the Ukrainian advance, would amount to horrendous casualties for the Russians.
Send as many resources from Mikolaiv, Odessa and the interior mainland as can be used. Make is a massacre. The Russians only understand force.
If Kherson is retaken and the Ukrainians are able to push East, it would represent the perfect time towards the coast, it would be the perfect time for the West to send shore launched, anti-ship weapons. They would be well used at night. Drowning hundreds of Russian sailors in the cold, Sean during the black of the night, would be a great morale booster for the Ukrainians and a quality revenge for the night attack on the barracks in Mikolaiv that killed dozens of Ukrainian soldiers in their sleep.
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