.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being greeted at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is actually generally the case, yet AFP journalists had earlier found Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be actually the 2nd substitution in between the warring nations because Kyiv's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were also one of the returnees, consisting of a "girl that was actually hijacked when she pertained to deal with her unwell father.".He stated the exchange also included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, and also soldiers, perimeter shields and policemans.AFP spoke to two females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as receiving florals, that stated 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," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed auto of Ukraine's National Guard, claimed.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their faces, which were actually cleared away as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked to several of them briefly, and all those who talked stated they were captured during Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression last month.