.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back from Russia, along with AFP observing the team being actually welcomed at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it was part of a swap with Russia, as is actually typically the scenario, but AFP reporters had previously observed Russian prisoners of war being actually packed onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the second substitution between the challenging nations given that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were actually likewise amongst the returnees, consisting of a "girl that was taken hostage when she involved care for her unwell papa.".He pointed out the substitution additionally consisted of fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, as well as soldiers, perimeter protections as well as polices.AFP spoke to two women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as acquiring blossoms, who claimed they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can not feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed lorry of Ukraine's National Protector, mentioned.One more female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods hiding their skins, which were actually taken out as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP spoke with several of them quickly, and all those who communicated said they were actually captured during Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive last month.