.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back coming from Russia, with AFP watching the team being actually greeted at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky performed not make clear whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is often the situation, however AFP writers had actually previously seen Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be actually the 2nd swap between the warring nations considering that Kyiv's shock attack in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated civilians were additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "woman who was actually hijacked when she pertained to deal with her ill daddy.".He claimed the substitution also consisted of competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, in addition to soldiers, border shields and law enforcement officers.AFP contacted 2 females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also obtaining florals, who stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not believe it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Guard, claimed.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their skins, which were taken out as they were actually packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke to some of them briefly, plus all those who communicated claimed they were taken captive in the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught final month.