KIEV, September 26. /TASS/. The 112 Ukraine TV channel has branded the decision made by the Ukrainian National Council for TV and Radio Broadcasting to strip it of its license for countrywide broadcast as illegal and announced that it will continue operating via satellite, cable networks and on the Internet.

"We, the TV channel team, consider this as censorship crackdown, which raises a lot of doubts about the existence of freedom of speech in Ukraine," the channel said via statement. The channel also explained that the decision is illegal because a number of National Council’s members who made the decision had their terms in the office expired.

Artyom Marchevsky, general producer of 112 Ukraine, commented on the decision saying that he intends to "notify international organizations about this illegal fact." "Today’s events have again demonstrated that the authorities are afraid of objective and fair information. Unfortunately, the newly elected authorities are still not ready to build a democratic society in Ukraine," he added.

At the same time, the TV channel assured that "it will keep broadcasting on air and on the Internet." "We will not allow the National Council’s decision to deprive Ukrainians of objective information," the channel’s press service concluded.

On Thursday, the National Council stripped the 112 Ukraine TV channel of its license for nationwide broadcasting.