.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the group being welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clarify whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is often the instance, yet AFP writers had previously observed Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the perimeter.It will be actually the second substitution in between the challenging nations due to the fact that Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, featuring a "woman who was actually hijacked when she came to deal with her ill father.".He stated the substitution likewise featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, in addition to soldiers, boundary protectors and policemans.AFP spoke to two females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and acquiring blooms, who mentioned they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can not feel it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, claimed.Yet another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods hiding their faces, which were actually eliminated as they were packed into a minivan.AFP contacted a number of them quickly, and all those that talked stated they were actually taken captive during Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression final month.