.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it belonged to an exchange along with Russia, as is often the situation, but AFP writers had actually earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would be actually the 2nd swap in between the warring nations due to the fact that Kyiv's surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually also amongst the returnees, consisting of a "lady that was actually hijacked when she involved handle her sick dad.".He stated the swap additionally consisted of boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, border protectors and also policemans.AFP contacted pair of females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also obtaining flowers, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can not believe it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed car of Ukraine's National Guard, mentioned.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets hiding their faces, which were eliminated as they were actually loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke to a number of them briefly, and all those that spoke claimed they were taken captive during the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught last month.