.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back from Russia, along with AFP observing the team being welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is actually often the case, yet AFP journalists had earlier found Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be actually the 2nd substitution in between the warring nations given that Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated civilians were likewise amongst the returnees, consisting of a "lady who was hijacked when she pertained to deal with her sick dad.".He said the swap likewise included fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, along with soldiers, border shields and also law enforcement officers.AFP talked to two girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and acquiring blossoms, who claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can't feel it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Protector, said.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing hoods hiding their skins, which were eliminated as they were packed into a minivan.AFP talked to a number of them temporarily, and all those who talked stated they were taken captive in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught final month.