.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned from Russia, along with AFP watching the team being greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clarify whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is actually typically the scenario, yet AFP journalists had earlier seen Russian hostages being actually filled onto a bus near the edge.It will be the 2nd substitution between the warring nations given that Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, including a "female that was taken hostage when she concerned care for her unwell daddy.".He pointed out the exchange additionally featured boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, as well as soldiers, perimeter shields as well as policemans.AFP talked with pair of ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as obtaining blooms, that mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not believe it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, said.One more female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were actually taken out as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP contacted several of them quickly, plus all those that talked stated they were actually taken captive throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.