.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, with AFP observing the team being actually greeted at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it belonged to a swap with Russia, as is actually often the instance, but AFP reporters had actually previously observed Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be actually the second substitution in between the challenging nations considering that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out civilians were additionally among the returnees, featuring a "lady who was actually hijacked when she came to deal with her ill papa.".He stated the swap additionally featured fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, along with soldiers, boundary guards and law enforcement agents.AFP spoke with 2 females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also receiving blossoms, that claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can not believe it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Shield, claimed.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods hiding their skins, which were actually removed as they were actually packed into a minivan.AFP contacted some of them temporarily, and all those who spoke said they were taken captive throughout Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught last month.