.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned coming from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being greeted at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky did not make clear whether it became part of a swap with Russia, as is often the situation, yet AFP reporters had actually earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the perimeter.It will be the 2nd substitution between the challenging nations considering that Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were actually also among the returnees, featuring a "woman that was hijacked when she concerned look after her sick papa.".He said the swap likewise included competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, in addition to soldiers, border protectors as well as polices.AFP talked with pair of girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and getting florals, that claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can't believe it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed automobile of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets hiding their faces, which were actually taken out as they were filled into a minivan.AFP spoke with some of all of them temporarily, and all those that communicated said they were taken captive throughout Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive last month.