.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back from Russia, with AFP watching the group being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clarify whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is commonly the situation, yet AFP writers had previously seen Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be the second swap between the warring nations because Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky claimed civilians were actually also amongst the returnees, including a "female that was actually hijacked when she involved look after her unwell father.".He claimed the substitution additionally included fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, boundary protections and also polices.AFP talked with pair of women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as receiving blooms, who stated they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Shield, stated.An additional lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods hiding their faces, which were actually taken out as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP talked to some of them for a while, and all those that talked claimed they were captured throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive last month.