.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, with AFP experiencing the team being greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it became part of a substitution with Russia, as is generally the instance, yet AFP writers had previously found Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be actually the 2nd exchange in between the challenging countries since Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky pointed out civilians were actually additionally one of the returnees, featuring a "gal who was taken hostage when she pertained to handle her unwell papa.".He claimed the swap additionally included fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, along with soldiers, boundary protectors and also polices.AFP contacted 2 women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and receiving blooms, that stated they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can't think it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed car of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.An additional woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their skins, which were actually taken out as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP spoke to a number of them temporarily, plus all those that communicated said they were taken captive throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.