.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned coming from Russia, with AFP seeing the team being welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not make clear whether it belonged to an exchange along with Russia, as is usually the instance, but AFP reporters had actually earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be the second substitution in between the warring countries considering that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out civilians were actually also one of the returnees, featuring a "gal that was actually hijacked when she came to deal with her ill daddy.".He pointed out the substitution also featured boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, boundary guards as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked to 2 girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and acquiring blooms, that mentioned they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing hoods hiding their skins, which were actually eliminated as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP talked with some of them quickly, plus all those that communicated mentioned they were captured during Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression final month.