.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being actually welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is normally the situation, however AFP journalists had actually previously viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It will be the second substitution between the warring nations because Kyiv's surprise incursion in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky stated civilians were actually additionally amongst the returnees, including a "girl who was actually taken hostage when she pertained to care for her unwell dad.".He pointed out the substitution additionally featured boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, in addition to soldiers, perimeter shields and also law enforcement officers.AFP contacted pair of girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also getting flowers, that claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can not feel it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Protection, said.One more lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on bonnets concealing their skins, which were removed as they were packed into a minivan.AFP contacted some of them for a while, plus all those who spoke claimed they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression last month.