.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, with AFP experiencing the team being welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clarify whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is normally the case, but AFP journalists had actually previously observed Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the border.It will be the second substitution in between the warring nations given that Kyiv's shock incursion in to Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were additionally amongst the returnees, including a "girl that was hijacked when she involved look after her ill daddy.".He stated the exchange also included fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, boundary protections and also law enforcement officers.AFP talked to 2 females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also receiving blooms, who said they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can not think it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their faces, which were actually cleared away as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked with a few of them briefly, and all those who spoke mentioned they were actually captured during Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught last month.