.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being greeted at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it belonged to a substitution with Russia, as is actually generally the scenario, but AFP journalists had previously viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be the second swap in between the challenging nations due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky claimed civilians were also one of the returnees, consisting of a "woman that was taken hostage when she involved handle her ill papa.".He pointed out the substitution also included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, boundary protectors and also polices.AFP contacted two ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and acquiring florals, that claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not think it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, mentioned.Yet another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods hiding their skins, which were taken out as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked with several of all of them for a while, and all those who spoke stated they were actually captured in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive last month.