.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, along with AFP seeing the group being welcomed at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clarify whether it was part of a substitution with Russia, as is generally the scenario, but AFP writers had actually previously observed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be the second substitution between the challenging nations since Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were actually likewise among the returnees, featuring a "woman that was actually taken hostage when she involved handle her ill dad.".He said the exchange additionally consisted of fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, border protectors and polices.AFP spoke to two women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as acquiring florals, who claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not believe it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods hiding their skins, which were actually cleared away as they were filled into a minivan.AFP spoke to a few of all of them temporarily, and all those that talked claimed they were actually taken captive throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression final month.