.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being actually greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clarify whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is normally the scenario, but AFP journalists had earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the edge.It would be the second swap in between the warring countries considering that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky said private citizens were actually additionally amongst the returnees, including a "female who was hijacked when she came to handle her sick father.".He said the swap also consisted of fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, in addition to soldiers, boundary protections as well as law enforcement agents.AFP spoke with pair of ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also receiving blooms, that mentioned they went to the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not believe it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were gotten rid of as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP spoke with a number of them for a while, plus all those who communicated mentioned they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk aggression final month.