So Lavrov commented on the question whether it is possible to release Ukrainian hostages, among whom the journalist mentioned filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, journalist Roman Sushchenko, and Stanislav Klykh, all seen as political prisoners by Ukraine. "As for these people, there is a legal possibility, used when [military pilot] Nadiya Savchenko had been exchanged. There are Russian citizens in Ukrainian prisons, too," he said. However, the Russian official refrained from specific forecasts about these or other hostages.