.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned coming from Russia, with AFP observing the team being greeted at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not make clear whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is actually normally the scenario, yet AFP writers had earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It will be the second exchange in between the challenging countries considering that Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were also amongst the returnees, including a "lady who was hijacked when she came to care for her ill papa.".He mentioned the swap likewise included boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, in addition to soldiers, border guards and also law enforcement officers.AFP spoke to pair of girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also acquiring blossoms, that mentioned they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not believe it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed automobile of Ukraine's National Protector, pointed out.One more female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods hiding their skins, which were gotten rid of as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP spoke with a few of them quickly, plus all those who spoke said they were actually taken captive during the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught last month.