.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back coming from Russia, with AFP seeing the team being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clarify whether it became part of a swap with Russia, as is actually commonly the situation, however AFP writers had actually previously seen Russian hostages being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would certainly be the 2nd substitution in between the warring countries because Kyiv's surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky mentioned civilians were additionally among the returnees, including a "girl who was hijacked when she concerned care for her sick dad.".He said the exchange likewise consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, boundary protectors and polices.AFP talked with two females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and also acquiring blooms, who stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can not believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Guard, claimed.An additional female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were gotten rid of as they were filled right into a minivan.AFP spoke to a few of all of them temporarily, plus all those that talked claimed they were taken captive during Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive final month.