.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, with AFP experiencing the team being welcomed at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky performed not make clear whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is actually usually the situation, but AFP journalists had previously viewed Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the borderline.It will be the 2nd exchange in between the challenging nations because Kyiv's shock incursion in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were likewise amongst the returnees, consisting of a "gal that was taken hostage when she involved deal with her unwell daddy.".He pointed out the swap also featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, border guards as well as police officers.AFP talked to 2 girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and acquiring flowers, who mentioned they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not feel it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Protection, mentioned.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods hiding their skins, which were eliminated as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked with a number of all of them temporarily, plus all those that communicated claimed they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression final month.