.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned coming from Russia, with AFP experiencing the group being actually welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is typically the situation, however AFP writers had actually earlier seen Russian hostages being packed onto a bus near the borderline.It would be actually the second swap in between the challenging nations given that Kyiv's shock incursion in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, including a "female who was taken hostage when she concerned look after her sick dad.".He said the swap additionally consisted of competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, as well as soldiers, border protections as well as policemans.AFP talked with 2 females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also receiving blooms, that stated they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not feel it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Yet another female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were removed as they were packed into a minivan.AFP spoke with a number of them briefly, and all those who spoke stated they were captured during Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught last month.