.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, with AFP seeing the team being actually welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not make clear whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is actually typically the case, yet AFP journalists had previously found Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be actually the 2nd exchange in between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's shock incursion in to Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky claimed civilians were likewise amongst the returnees, including a "woman who was actually hijacked when she concerned deal with her sick father.".He mentioned the swap additionally included boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, in addition to soldiers, perimeter protectors and law enforcement officers.AFP talked to 2 ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and receiving flowers, that claimed they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not feel it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using bonnets hiding their skins, which were actually removed as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP talked with a number of all of them briefly, and all those who spoke said they were actually captured throughout Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive final month.