.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being actually greeted at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is generally the scenario, however AFP journalists had actually previously found Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would be the second swap in between the warring nations since Kyiv's surprise attack into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky said civilians were likewise among the returnees, including a "woman that was hijacked when she concerned handle her sick dad.".He pointed out the substitution additionally included boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, as well as soldiers, perimeter protectors as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked with pair of girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as receiving florals, who claimed they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can not feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed car of Ukraine's National Protection, said.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing bonnets hiding their skins, which were taken out as they were loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke to several of them for a while, and all those that communicated said they were taken captive during Ukraine's shock Kursk aggression final month.