.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being greeted at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clarify whether it belonged to a substitution with Russia, as is actually generally the instance, but AFP writers had actually earlier seen Russian hostages being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It will be the 2nd exchange in between the challenging countries considering that Kyiv's surprise attack into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky said private citizens were actually additionally among the returnees, including a "lady that was actually taken hostage when she involved handle her unwell dad.".He mentioned the exchange additionally consisted of fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, border guards and also police officers.AFP spoke with two females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also receiving flowers, that claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protector, mentioned.Yet another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on bonnets hiding their skins, which were actually taken out as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke to a few of all of them for a while, plus all those that spoke stated they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.