.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it became part of a substitution with Russia, as is typically the situation, but AFP reporters had actually previously viewed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be actually the 2nd swap between the warring countries because Kyiv's surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky stated civilians were actually likewise one of the returnees, featuring a "lady that was actually hijacked when she involved handle her ill dad.".He said the substitution also consisted of boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, along with soldiers, boundary shields and law enforcement agents.AFP spoke to pair of females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also getting flowers, that said they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed auto of Ukraine's National Protector, pointed out.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using bonnets hiding their faces, which were actually eliminated as they were actually packed in to a minivan.AFP talked with some of all of them quickly, and all those who talked mentioned they were captured in the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught last month.