.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back from Russia, with AFP observing the team being welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it became part of an exchange with Russia, as is actually generally the situation, yet AFP journalists had actually previously viewed Russian hostages being actually filled onto a bus near the edge.It would be the 2nd substitution in between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky claimed civilians were additionally amongst the returnees, consisting of a "gal who was taken hostage when she involved handle her ill daddy.".He claimed the exchange likewise consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, in addition to soldiers, boundary protections as well as polices.AFP spoke with 2 ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners as well as receiving flowers, that claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not believe it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Guard, pointed out.An additional girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing hoods concealing their skins, which were actually gotten rid of as they were actually packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke with a number of all of them for a while, and all those that communicated stated they were taken captive in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.