.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned from Russia, along with AFP watching the team being actually welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is typically the instance, but AFP journalists had actually earlier viewed Russian hostages being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It will be actually the second exchange between the warring countries considering that Kyiv's shock attack in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky stated private citizens were actually also amongst the returnees, including a "girl who was taken hostage when she involved take care of her sick dad.".He said the exchange additionally featured boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, in addition to soldiers, border shields as well as policemans.AFP talked to two women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as receiving blooms, that said they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can't feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Protector, mentioned.Yet another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets concealing their skins, which were actually cleared away as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP talked to a number of all of them briefly, and all those who talked mentioned they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive last month.