.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP seeing the group being welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clear up whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is actually typically the situation, but AFP reporters had actually previously found Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the edge.It would be actually the second substitution in between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky said civilians were actually also amongst the returnees, featuring a "girl that was hijacked when she related to care for her ill daddy.".He pointed out the swap also consisted of fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, boundary guards and law enforcement officers.AFP spoke to 2 ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and also getting blossoms, who claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not think it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed vehicle of Ukraine's National Guard, mentioned.An additional woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods hiding their faces, which were actually removed as they were actually loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke with several of them for a while, plus all those that spoke said they were taken captive during Ukraine's shock Kursk aggression last month.