.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, along with AFP observing the group being greeted at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky did not clear up whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is actually typically the situation, but AFP writers had actually earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be the second swap between the challenging nations because Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky mentioned civilians were actually additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "lady who was taken hostage when she concerned look after her unwell father.".He said the exchange also included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, as well as soldiers, perimeter guards as well as law enforcement officers.AFP spoke with two females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as getting blossoms, who claimed they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can't think it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Guard, mentioned.One more girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods hiding their faces, which were taken out as they were packed into a minivan.AFP spoke with a number of all of them temporarily, and all those that spoke claimed they were actually captured during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression last month.