.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back coming from Russia, along with AFP seeing the team being actually greeted at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it became part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually normally the scenario, yet AFP writers had previously observed Russian hostages being actually packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be actually the second swap between the challenging nations due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, featuring a "girl who was hijacked when she involved look after her sick father.".He claimed the swap additionally featured boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, boundary protectors as well as policemans.AFP talked to two girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners as well as obtaining flowers, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can not feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Shield, said.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were using bonnets hiding their skins, which were actually gotten rid of as they were actually filled right into a minivan.AFP contacted a few of them briefly, plus all those who communicated stated they were captured during Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught final month.