Facebook parent company Meta said that it has taken down a coordinated Russian influence operation that was targeting Ukrainians across Facebook and Instagram, write CBS NEWS.

The company said the misinformation campaign has ties to another Russian network in the Donbas region that was previously banned from Facebook in April 2020.

In addition to the influence operation, Meta said it also took down a coordinated hacking group attempting to target and compromise accounts within Ukraine.

“We took this operation down, we’ve blocked their domains from being shared on our platform, and we"ve shared information about the operations with other tech platforms with researchers and with governments”, - David Agranovich, director of threat disruption for Meta, told reporters.