.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being actually greeted at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not make clear whether it belonged to a swap with Russia, as is actually normally the situation, but AFP journalists had actually previously found Russian prisoners of war being actually packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It will be the 2nd swap in between the challenging countries considering that Kyiv's surprise incursion in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed civilians were additionally one of the returnees, featuring a "woman that was hijacked when she came to care for her sick daddy.".He pointed out the exchange also featured fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, as well as soldiers, perimeter protectors and also law enforcement officers.AFP contacted 2 girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and receiving blooms, who stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not feel it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Protection, mentioned.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods concealing their skins, which were actually removed as they were actually filled into a minivan.AFP talked with some of all of them for a while, plus all those that communicated claimed they were captured during the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.