.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP seeing the group being welcomed at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed not make clear whether it was part of a substitution with Russia, as is actually generally the scenario, however AFP journalists had actually earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the border.It will be actually the second swap in between the warring countries given that Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually also one of the returnees, consisting of a "lady who was actually taken hostage when she came to handle her ill daddy.".He said the swap also consisted of competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, boundary protections as well as polices.AFP talked to two females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as obtaining blooms, who said they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can't feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed lorry of Ukraine's National Protection, pointed out.One more lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their skins, which were cleared away as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked to a number of them temporarily, plus all those who communicated mentioned they were taken captive during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught final month.