.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, along with AFP observing the group being welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clarify whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is actually usually the instance, yet AFP journalists had actually previously viewed Russian hostages being actually packed onto a bus near the borderline.It would be actually the 2nd exchange in between the warring countries given that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed civilians were additionally amongst the returnees, consisting of a "woman who was hijacked when she involved handle her sick father.".He claimed the exchange also included fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, along with soldiers, boundary guards as well as police officers.AFP spoke to 2 females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and acquiring blooms, 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," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Guard, mentioned.Yet another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their skins, which were taken out as they were actually filled right into a minivan.AFP talked with a few of all of them briefly, and all those who talked stated they were captured in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.