.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back coming from Russia, along with AFP observing the team being actually welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is often the instance, however AFP reporters had previously seen Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the second substitution between the challenging nations considering that Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated private citizens were also among the returnees, featuring a "female that was actually taken hostage when she involved handle her ill dad.".He claimed the swap additionally included boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, perimeter protections as well as police officers.AFP spoke to pair of females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also acquiring florals, that stated they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't think it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets concealing their faces, which were actually taken out as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked to a few of them for a while, and all those that spoke stated they were actually captured in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression last month.