.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP seeing the group being welcomed at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not make clear whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is generally the case, yet AFP journalists had previously seen Russian hostages being actually filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would be the 2nd substitution in between the challenging nations because Kyiv's surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky claimed civilians were actually additionally amongst the returnees, consisting of a "female who was hijacked when she involved care for her ill daddy.".He stated the swap likewise consisted of boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, border protections as well as law enforcement officers.AFP contacted 2 females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and obtaining florals, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can't feel it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Guard, stated.Yet another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on bonnets hiding their skins, which were cleared away as they were actually loaded right into a minivan.AFP spoke to a number of them for a while, plus all those that talked mentioned they were captured during Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive last month.