.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the group being actually welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it became part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually typically the case, however AFP reporters had earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be the second swap in between the warring countries given that Kyiv's surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky stated private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, including a "gal that was actually hijacked when she related to deal with her unwell papa.".He stated the exchange also consisted of fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, border protectors and also law enforcement agents.AFP contacted two women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and getting flowers, who stated they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can not feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed car of Ukraine's National Protector, stated.Yet another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods hiding their faces, which were cleared away as they were actually packed in to a minivan.AFP talked to some of them briefly, plus all those that communicated claimed they were taken captive during Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression final month.