.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned from Russia, along with AFP watching the group being actually welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clarify whether it belonged to an exchange along with Russia, as is commonly the situation, yet AFP writers had actually earlier found Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the edge.It would be actually the second swap between the warring nations due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated private citizens were actually additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "gal who was hijacked when she involved care for her sick father.".He pointed out the exchange likewise featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, along with soldiers, boundary protectors as well as police officers.AFP contacted 2 ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also acquiring blooms, who said they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not believe it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed vehicle of Ukraine's National Protection, said.One more girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing bonnets hiding their faces, which were actually gotten rid of as they were filled in to a minivan.AFP spoke to some of them temporarily, plus all those who talked said they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive final month.