.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, with AFP witnessing the group being actually greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it became part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually usually the scenario, yet AFP journalists had actually earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the perimeter.It would certainly be the 2nd swap in between the warring nations due to the fact that Kyiv's shock incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky pointed out civilians were actually additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "woman who was actually taken hostage when she came to care for her unwell daddy.".He stated the exchange likewise included boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, boundary guards as well as police officers.AFP contacted pair of females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and obtaining flowers, that claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can not feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed automobile of Ukraine's National Protection, pointed out.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing bonnets hiding their faces, which were actually taken out as they were packed right into a minivan.AFP spoke to some of all of them for a while, plus all those that communicated stated they were actually taken captive throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.