.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, with AFP experiencing the team being welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not make clear whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually commonly the instance, but AFP reporters had actually previously found Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It would be actually the second substitution between the warring nations because Kyiv's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky mentioned civilians were also among the returnees, including a "woman who was hijacked when she came to handle her ill papa.".He stated the swap also consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, and also soldiers, border guards and policemans.AFP spoke to two girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as getting florals, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't feel it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed car of Ukraine's National Protection, mentioned.One more female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets hiding their faces, which were eliminated as they were packed into a minivan.AFP talked with a number of all of them for a while, and all those that communicated mentioned they were captured during the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive last month.