I used to have a lot of friends in WMA who would travel to Voleyn every year to fight.
They'd report back that Russians are often ignorant, drunken homophobes; and Ukrainians are often ignorant, drunken homophobe neo-nazis with swastika tattoos who brag about beating up foreign students and being paid muscle for politicians.
That was about 2008-2011.
Putin is shamefully misrepresenting your country, but the fascists he talks about are known outside Ukraine.