.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the group being actually welcomed at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not make clear whether it belonged to a substitution along with Russia, as is actually typically the situation, yet AFP reporters had actually earlier observed Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the second substitution in between the warring countries due to the fact that Kyiv's shock attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said private citizens were actually additionally amongst the returnees, featuring a "girl who was actually hijacked when she concerned look after her ill daddy.".He claimed the swap likewise included competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, perimeter protections and police officers.AFP contacted two women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as obtaining flowers, that said they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can not think it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, mentioned.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets concealing their faces, which were gotten rid of as they were actually filled into a minivan.AFP talked with a few of all of them quickly, and all those that communicated stated they were captured during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.