.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, with AFP experiencing the group being actually welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not make clear whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is often the instance, but AFP writers had actually previously observed Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be actually the second substitution between the warring nations given that Kyiv's surprise attack into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were additionally one of the returnees, including a "gal that was hijacked when she came to look after her sick papa.".He pointed out the swap additionally featured fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, in addition to soldiers, border shields and police officers.AFP spoke to 2 girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and receiving florals, who claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Guard, pointed out.An additional female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets hiding their faces, which were actually cleared away as they were packed into a minivan.AFP spoke to some of all of them for a while, plus all those who spoke mentioned they were taken captive throughout Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive final month.