.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back coming from Russia, with AFP watching the group being actually welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not make clear whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is actually normally the instance, however AFP journalists had actually previously observed Russian hostages being actually packed onto a bus near the border.It will be the second swap in between the challenging countries because Kyiv's surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated civilians were additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "female that was actually hijacked when she came to look after her ill daddy.".He claimed the swap additionally included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, boundary protections and polices.AFP talked to pair of women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as getting blooms, that claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can't feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protection, pointed out.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods hiding their skins, which were gotten rid of as they were packed right into a minivan.AFP spoke to some of them briefly, and all those who talked stated they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught last month.