.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back from Russia, along with AFP watching the team being actually welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not make clear whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is typically the scenario, yet AFP reporters had actually earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be the 2nd swap between the challenging nations due to the fact that Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were additionally among the returnees, including a "gal that was actually taken hostage when she pertained to handle her unwell daddy.".He pointed out the substitution additionally consisted of competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, along with soldiers, border guards and also law enforcement agents.AFP spoke with pair of girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and obtaining blooms, that claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not believe it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Protector, mentioned.An additional female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on bonnets hiding their faces, which were actually cleared away as they were actually packed into a minivan.AFP spoke with some of them for a while, plus all those who spoke claimed they were actually captured during Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught last month.