.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clarify whether it became part of an exchange along with Russia, as is actually often the scenario, however AFP writers had earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be the second exchange in between the warring nations because Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said private citizens were actually additionally one of the returnees, featuring a "lady who was hijacked when she related to deal with her sick papa.".He pointed out the exchange likewise included competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, perimeter shields as well as police officers.AFP spoke to pair of girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and also receiving blooms, who claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can't think it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing hoods hiding their skins, which were actually removed as they were actually packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke to a number of them quickly, and all those who spoke mentioned they were taken captive during Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught last month.