.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, with AFP witnessing the group being welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky did not clear up whether it was part of a swap along with Russia, as is generally the case, yet AFP writers had earlier found Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It will be the second substitution between the challenging countries since Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky mentioned civilians were additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "woman that was taken hostage when she related to handle her unwell daddy.".He said the exchange additionally included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, along with soldiers, border protectors and also police officers.AFP spoke to two ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and getting blossoms, that said they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed lorry of Ukraine's National Guard, claimed.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods hiding their faces, which were actually removed as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke to several of them briefly, and all those who communicated stated they were actually taken captive throughout Ukraine's shock Kursk aggression last month.