.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP observing the team being actually greeted at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not make clear whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually commonly the instance, however AFP reporters had actually earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It would be actually the second substitution between the warring nations because Kyiv's surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated civilians were actually also among the returnees, including a "lady that was hijacked when she involved deal with her unwell dad.".He pointed out the substitution also included boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, as well as soldiers, border shields as well as law enforcement agents.AFP spoke to 2 women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also receiving blooms, that mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can't feel it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods concealing their faces, which were cleared away as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP spoke to a number of all of them for a while, and all those that spoke claimed they were taken captive in the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive last month.