.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned from Russia, with AFP witnessing the group being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky did not make clear whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is normally the situation, but AFP writers had actually earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be actually the second swap in between the warring countries given that Kyiv's shock attack right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were also among the returnees, featuring a "gal that was taken hostage when she came to care for her ill dad.".He mentioned the exchange likewise included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, boundary protectors and also law enforcement officers.AFP talked to two women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and obtaining florals, who mentioned they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not feel it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Protection, said.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their skins, which were actually taken out as they were actually loaded right into a minivan.AFP talked to a few of them quickly, and all those who communicated said they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught last month.