As someone who consumes most information from Russian language I can confirm this is true. Even truer than we Ukrainians learn about us and about Russia on our history lessons in school.
When I tell foreigners abroad that Russia has an aggressive, militarist culture in a way an unrepentant Germany was, I am often called a nazi, and a rusophobe.
https://i1.kknews.cc/n5Oypu_Nfn50D-QnkvdGWfn3-eO-QmoGHwXkVNY...
For nearly a century speaking ill of the Big Angry Bear Next Door was forbidden - not by law, of course - it just wasn't a thing you did and also kept your political career.