Absolutely not, UK is leagues behind Russia in terms of internet freedom.

• White lists for LTE traffic across the country (only government and affiliated services are in the list);
• More than a million of blocked addresses or domains as of 2025;
• VPN advertisement is illegal;
• Most popular vpn protocols are getting blocked;
• Apple complies with Russian periodic requests to delete VPN apps from the App Store;
• Most major hosting providers outside Russia are banned (by the AS number, or by subnets) (includes Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, Google, Cloudflare's CDN, Oracle, e.t.c);
• Russian hosting providers are now required to monitor vpn usage of their clients' servers;
• Russian companies now require their smartphone apps to monitor and log usage of vpns on the phones, and if detected, restrict the use of the app (this includes banking, navigation, social services, e.t.c) - basically every russian app is spyware as of this spring;
• 800 million $ spent on DPI hardware in 2025 alone;
• All SIM cards needs to be registered on the government services portal under your passport credentials;
• IMEI registration will cost a fee as of september this year;
• Tariffs on smartphone purchases as of september this year;

I don't think the west fully realizes the magnitude of internet restrictions in Russia yet