.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the group being actually welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is commonly the instance, yet AFP journalists had previously seen Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the perimeter.It would certainly be actually the second swap in between the warring countries due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky mentioned civilians were actually also amongst the returnees, featuring a "woman that was hijacked when she pertained to look after her sick father.".He said the substitution likewise included fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, along with soldiers, border guards as well as law enforcement officers.AFP spoke with two females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and acquiring florals, that stated they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Protector, mentioned.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on bonnets concealing their skins, which were actually removed as they were filled into a minivan.AFP contacted a number of all of them for a while, plus all those who spoke said they were actually captured throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive last month.