The Russia elites have this delusional world view that the Americans/British have caused their neighbors to the west like Poland and Ukraine to hate Russians. The truth is that the Poles and Ukrainians have hated the Russians because of the numerous examples of aggression against them by the Russians of the last few centuries. This past year’s “special military operation” is just another example of this.
And be fair, Ukrainians did a lot of bad things to Poles during WWII (Watch the movie ‘Wołyn’, if you have the stomach for it).
But they’ve pretty much let bygones be bygones, except for the relatively few Banderists still out there.