.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is often the situation, yet AFP reporters had actually previously seen Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be actually the second substitution in between the challenging nations because Kyiv's shock attack right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, consisting of a "woman that was hijacked when she came to take care of her ill dad.".He mentioned the swap additionally featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, as well as soldiers, perimeter guards and police officers.AFP spoke with two females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and also acquiring blooms, who claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not think it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Protection, said.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their skins, which were actually cleared away as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP spoke to a few of all of them temporarily, plus all those that talked said they were taken captive during the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught last month.