.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back coming from Russia, with AFP observing the group being welcomed at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clarify whether it was part of a substitution with Russia, as is usually the instance, yet AFP reporters had actually earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be actually the second exchange between the warring countries given that Kyiv's shock attack right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky claimed civilians were also one of the returnees, featuring a "lady that was taken hostage when she came to handle her unwell papa.".He said the swap additionally included competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, perimeter protectors and also policemans.AFP talked with pair of females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and also getting flowers, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not think it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protector, mentioned.An additional lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using bonnets hiding their faces, which were removed as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP contacted a number of all of them briefly, and all those that communicated claimed they were actually captured during the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught final month.