On March 3, the journalist from Luhansk Mariya Varfolomeyeva was released from the prison of "LPR". Mariya was held prisoner for over a year (since January 9, 2015) for photographing a residential building in her city. As the volunteer of Kharkiv Advicacy Group Yuriy Hukov informed IMI, Mariya was exchanged for two people held by the Ukrainian authorities.