.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the group being actually greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clarify whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is often the case, but AFP journalists had previously observed Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the border.It would be the 2nd swap in between the challenging nations given that Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually likewise one of the returnees, featuring a "lady that was actually hijacked when she pertained to handle her ill dad.".He said the substitution also included fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, as well as soldiers, boundary protections and polices.AFP talked to two females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as receiving flowers, who said they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can't feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Guard, said.An additional lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on bonnets concealing their faces, which were actually gotten rid of as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP spoke with several of them briefly, plus all those that spoke stated they were taken captive during Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught final month.