.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP seeing the team being actually welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did not clarify whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually generally the scenario, but AFP reporters had earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be the second swap between the challenging nations given that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky mentioned civilians were additionally amongst the returnees, featuring a "girl who was taken hostage when she came to look after her sick papa.".He said the swap also featured fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, boundary protections and law enforcement agents.AFP talked with pair of women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also obtaining florals, who mentioned they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can't feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets concealing their faces, which were eliminated as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke with several of them briefly, plus all those who talked said they were actually taken captive throughout Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive final month.