.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, with AFP witnessing the group being greeted at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clear up whether it became part of a swap with Russia, as is actually typically the instance, however AFP reporters had earlier observed Russian hostages being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be actually the second substitution in between the warring countries due to the fact that Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually additionally one of the returnees, featuring a "girl who was taken hostage when she came to look after her sick dad.".He stated the exchange also included fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, as well as soldiers, boundary protectors and policemans.AFP contacted two women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and acquiring florals, who claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Guard, claimed.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets concealing their faces, which were actually removed as they were filled into a minivan.AFP contacted a number of all of them quickly, and all those that talked mentioned they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive final month.