Update March 4, 2014 3:39 — RT issued a statement to the Huffington Post UK saying that Martin and its other journalists were free to express their own opinions but not on the air.



The network went on to say that there would be no reprimand, but it will be sending her to Crimea "to give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story."



Martin then told the Telegraph that she would not be going to Crimea.

RT anchor Abby Martin spoke out against Russia's military action against Ukraine during broadcast on Monday.

"Just because I work here, for RT, doesn't mean I don't have editorial independence and I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any military intervention in sovereign nations' affairs. What Russia did is wrong," she said at the end of RT's Breaking the Set.

"I will not sit here and apologize or defend military aggression," she said.

She goes on to blast the media for their coverage of the situation in Ukraine. "Furthermore, the coverage I've seen of Ukraine has been truly disappointing from all sides of the media spectrum, and ripe with disinformation," she said.

"All we can do now is hope for a peaceful outcome for a terrible situation, and prevent another full-blown cold war between multiple superpowers. Until then, I'll keep telling the truth as I see it," she concluded.

On her Twitter feed, Martin did not mention the incident, instead retweeting a quote from Vincent Van Gogh.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. - Vincent Van Gogh — Mike Perry (@mikefperry) February 22, 2014

Martin, originally from Washington D.C., is a host of Breaking The Set on RT, formerly known as Russia Today. The show is described as a program that "cuts through the pre-written narrative that tries to tell you what to think, and what to care about."

However, RT, Moscow's English-language news service, has been criticized for its one-sided reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

When Russian troops reportedly invaded Ukraine's Crimea region over the weekend, BuzzFeed's Katherine Miller and Andrew Kaczynski kept an eye on RT America to see how the network covered the crisis.

One of the first things they noticed was that RT America explained the situation using phrases like "Russia force to act" and "stabilizing force for Ukraine." They also pointed out that RT America accused the U.S. of hypocrisy over Iranian and Ukrainian nuclear weapons. Additionally, in a segment that aired just after President Obama called Putin, RT America ran audio clips of Obama that were edited in a less-than-flattering manner.

RT's statement to HuffPost UK: