.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the group being greeted at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clarify whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is actually usually the instance, however AFP writers had actually earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the perimeter.It will be the second swap in between the challenging nations since Kyiv's shock incursion in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky said private citizens were also one of the returnees, consisting of a "lady that was actually hijacked when she concerned deal with her ill father.".He mentioned the swap additionally featured fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, in addition to soldiers, border guards as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked with pair of girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also acquiring flowers, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can't think it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Protector, mentioned.Yet another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were using bonnets hiding their skins, which were eliminated as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP contacted a few of them briefly, and all those who communicated stated they were captured throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught final month.