.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the group being actually welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it belonged to a substitution along with Russia, as is normally the scenario, but AFP reporters had earlier found Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It would be actually the 2nd exchange in between the challenging countries considering that Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually likewise one of the returnees, including a "woman that was actually taken hostage when she related to care for her sick daddy.".He said the exchange likewise featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, in addition to soldiers, border guards as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked with 2 girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as acquiring blossoms, that stated they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Shield, stated.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using bonnets concealing their skins, which were actually gotten rid of as they were packed right into a minivan.AFP spoke to a few of all of them for a while, plus all those who spoke said they were captured throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive final month.