.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the group being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clarify whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is often the situation, however AFP reporters had actually previously found Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be the 2nd swap between the warring nations given that Kyiv's surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out civilians were also amongst the returnees, consisting of a "woman that was actually taken hostage when she concerned handle her unwell papa.".He claimed the exchange also featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, along with soldiers, boundary protectors and polices.AFP talked with pair of females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners as well as receiving blossoms, who stated they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can't believe it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Guard, stated.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their faces, which were taken out as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke to several of all of them briefly, plus all those who spoke said they were taken captive during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.