.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned from Russia, with AFP experiencing the group being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it belonged to an exchange along with Russia, as is often the case, yet AFP reporters had earlier viewed Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the second substitution in between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's shock attack in to Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky mentioned civilians were actually additionally amongst the returnees, including a "female that was hijacked when she came to deal with her unwell papa.".He stated the substitution likewise consisted of fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, border guards and policemans.AFP spoke to pair of women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners as well as getting blooms, that 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," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Protector, pointed out.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods concealing their skins, which were taken out as they were actually filled into a minivan.AFP spoke to a number of all of them quickly, and all those who communicated said they were actually captured during Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught final month.