.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being actually greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not make clear whether it was part of a swap with Russia, as is generally the case, yet AFP writers had earlier found Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be actually the 2nd swap in between the warring countries since Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed civilians were likewise one of the returnees, featuring a "girl who was actually hijacked when she involved look after her ill dad.".He said the exchange additionally consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, as well as soldiers, perimeter protectors and also law enforcement agents.AFP contacted two ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also acquiring flowers, who claimed they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can't believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Guard, pointed out.An additional woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using bonnets hiding their skins, which were actually eliminated as they were actually filled into a minivan.AFP spoke with a number of all of them for a while, and all those that communicated stated they were taken captive in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.