.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being actually greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did not clarify whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is generally the instance, yet AFP reporters had previously found Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be actually the 2nd exchange between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's shock attack in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky said civilians were additionally one of the returnees, featuring a "lady who was actually taken hostage when she related to look after her sick father.".He mentioned the exchange additionally featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, in addition to soldiers, boundary protectors as well as polices.AFP contacted two women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and getting blooms, that said they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can't feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed lorry of Ukraine's National Shield, mentioned.Yet another female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing bonnets concealing their faces, which were actually taken out as they were packed into a minivan.AFP talked to a number of all of them temporarily, and all those that spoke said they were captured during Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.