.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being welcomed at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clear up whether it became part of an exchange along with Russia, as is generally the situation, however AFP journalists had actually previously found Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would be the second substitution in between the challenging countries due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said civilians were additionally amongst the returnees, including a "lady who was hijacked when she came to look after her sick daddy.".He said the substitution likewise featured fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, and also soldiers, boundary shields as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked to 2 ladies in their 20s wrapped 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 am actually finally home, I can't feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Protection, stated.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets concealing their skins, which were actually taken out as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP spoke with a few of them briefly, plus all those who communicated stated they were actually captured during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught final month.