.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the group being actually greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clarify whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is generally the scenario, however AFP writers had actually previously seen Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the perimeter.It will be the 2nd swap between the challenging nations considering that Kyiv's shock attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said private citizens were additionally one of the returnees, including a "woman who was actually hijacked when she pertained to handle her unwell father.".He claimed the swap additionally consisted of competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, along with soldiers, border guards and also polices.AFP contacted two women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and obtaining blooms, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can't feel it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Protection, pointed out.Another female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing hoods concealing their skins, which were actually cleared away as they were actually filled right into a minivan.AFP spoke to some of them for a while, plus all those who talked mentioned they were actually captured during Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught final month.