Exactly. The Kremlin has been throttling the internet in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They do this because the Ukrainian drones use the internet for navigation to their targets.
If a Ruskie googles "population of Boston", they would see it's got a population of 675K and call it a small city. Since they've never been to America, they don't know greater Boston is surrounded by over a 100 suburban cities and towns making it a metro area of over 5 million.
You're right, they've never been to America and it shows in their ignorance of American cities.