.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP seeing the team being actually greeted at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not make clear whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is actually usually the scenario, but AFP journalists had actually previously observed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be the 2nd exchange between the challenging countries because Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were actually likewise among the returnees, consisting of a "woman who was hijacked when she came to take care of her unwell daddy.".He mentioned the swap likewise featured fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, as well as soldiers, boundary protections and also policemans.AFP talked to 2 females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also acquiring blossoms, who said they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can not think it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Guard, pointed out.An additional lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their faces, which were actually removed as they were loaded into a minivan.AFP talked with some of them quickly, plus all those who talked claimed they were actually taken captive during Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.