.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned coming from Russia, with AFP seeing the group being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clarify whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is often the scenario, yet AFP writers had previously found Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the second swap in between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's surprise attack into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, including a "female that was hijacked when she related to look after her unwell father.".He mentioned the swap also consisted of competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, and also soldiers, border guards and policemans.AFP talked with pair of ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as getting blooms, that claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not feel it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Shield, mentioned.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods hiding their skins, which were taken out as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP spoke to several of them for a while, plus all those who communicated said they were taken captive in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught final month.