.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, along with AFP seeing the team being welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not make clear whether it belonged to an exchange along with Russia, as is usually the scenario, however AFP reporters had earlier found Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be the 2nd swap in between the warring countries given that Kyiv's surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky mentioned civilians were actually also one of the returnees, featuring a "lady that was actually hijacked when she pertained to care for her ill dad.".He claimed the substitution likewise included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, border shields and police officers.AFP spoke with 2 women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also acquiring flowers, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can not feel it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Protector, stated.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods hiding their faces, which were gotten rid of as they were packed right into a minivan.AFP spoke with several of them for a while, plus all those that talked claimed they were actually taken captive during Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive final month.