.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned from Russia, with AFP seeing the team being greeted at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clarify whether it was part of a swap along with Russia, as is generally the situation, however AFP journalists had previously viewed Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be actually the second exchange between the warring nations due to the fact that Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky said civilians were actually also one of the returnees, consisting of a "woman who was actually hijacked when she came to care for her unwell papa.".He stated the swap also featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, in addition to soldiers, perimeter guards as well as policemans.AFP talked with two ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as obtaining blooms, who claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can't feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed car of Ukraine's National Protection, pointed out.Yet another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their skins, which were taken out as they were actually filled right into a minivan.AFP talked with several of them quickly, and all those who spoke said they were captured during the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive last month.