.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the group being greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is actually normally the situation, however AFP journalists had previously found Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the border.It will be actually the second exchange between the challenging nations given that Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky said private citizens were actually additionally amongst the returnees, consisting of a "female who was hijacked when she related to look after her unwell father.".He stated the substitution also consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, border protectors and also law enforcement officers.AFP contacted pair of females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and obtaining florals, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't feel it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Protection, said.Yet another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were eliminated as they were filled into a minivan.AFP spoke to a few of them for a while, plus all those who communicated stated they were actually captured throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression last month.