.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back coming from Russia, with AFP seeing the team being actually welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clear up whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is normally the situation, but AFP writers had previously viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be actually the second exchange in between the warring nations since Kyiv's surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were actually also amongst the returnees, including a "woman who was actually hijacked when she involved deal with her ill daddy.".He said the substitution additionally featured boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, perimeter protectors and policemans.AFP talked to pair of girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and obtaining blossoms, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed car of Ukraine's National Protection, pointed out.An additional girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing hoods concealing their skins, which were gotten rid of as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked to several of all of them temporarily, plus all those that spoke said they were captured in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught final month.