.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP seeing the team being welcomed at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clarify whether it became part of an exchange along with Russia, as is often the situation, but AFP writers had previously viewed Russian hostages being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be the second swap in between the warring countries due to the fact that Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky claimed private citizens were additionally one of the returnees, including a "woman that was actually taken hostage when she concerned care for her unwell dad.".He mentioned the exchange additionally featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, in addition to soldiers, border guards and also police officers.AFP talked to pair of ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and getting blossoms, who claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not think it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed automobile of Ukraine's National Guard, pointed out.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their faces, which were removed as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP talked with some of them temporarily, plus all those that talked stated they were taken captive throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression last month.