.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned from Russia, with AFP experiencing the group being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clarify whether it became part of an exchange along with Russia, as is often the scenario, yet AFP writers had actually previously observed Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the edge.It will be the second exchange in between the challenging nations considering that Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said private citizens were likewise one of the returnees, consisting of a "female who was actually hijacked when she related to care for her ill dad.".He said the substitution also included boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, border protections as well as law enforcement agents.AFP contacted pair of females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and getting blooms, who claimed they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can't feel it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed vehicle of Ukraine's National Protection, mentioned.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods hiding their skins, which were removed as they were actually filled into a minivan.AFP spoke with several of all of them temporarily, and all those who communicated said they were actually captured throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive final month.