.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back coming from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being actually welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clear up whether it became part of a substitution with Russia, as is usually the scenario, but AFP writers had previously seen Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It will be the second substitution between the challenging countries because Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually also among the returnees, consisting of a "lady that was hijacked when she pertained to take care of her unwell daddy.".He mentioned the swap additionally included boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, in addition to soldiers, boundary protectors and also policemans.AFP spoke to 2 ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also getting blooms, that mentioned they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not think it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Guard, pointed out.Yet another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were taken out as they were actually packed right into a minivan.AFP spoke to a few of them briefly, and all those who communicated stated they were actually captured throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive last month.