Ukraine accuses Russia of abducting female military pilot

Russian authorities on Wednesday charged a captured Ukrainian military pilot with complicity in the deaths last month of two Russian journalists, spurring accusations in Kiev that the female officer was abducted by pro-Russia militants and illegally transferred to Russian custody.

A statement from the Russian Investigative Committee in Moscow said Nadezhda Savchenko, 31, was arrested after crossing the border into Russia disguised as a refugee, an account that Kiev authorities denounced as “absurd.”