Sara Firth, who has worked for the state-backed TV network since 2009, said station management suggested Ukraine was at fault for the deadly Thursday crash. 'I didn't want to watch a story like that, where people have lost loved ones and we're handling it like that,' she said

A Russia Today reporter quit Friday, furious over the way the network covered the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash.

Sara Firth, who was born in the UK and has worked for the state-backed TV station since 2009, said Russia Today suggested the Ukrainian government took down the Boeing 777 flying over the country.

London-based reporter is not the first journalist to call the network's bias into questions — another reporter quit in March over the way Russian management covered riots in neighboring Ukraine.

"I couldn't do it anymore," she told Buzzfeed. "Every single day we're lying and finding sexier ways to do it."

Firth, who first reported Russian government-backed station from Moscow before transferring to the London office, said management put witnesses into the story who specifically blamed Ukraine for the crash.

One correspondent said a previous plane crash that Ukraine had been involved with was "worth mentioning," she claimed.

"I didn't want to watch a story like that, where people have lost loved ones and we're handling it like that," she said.

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