.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, with AFP seeing the group being actually welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not make clear whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is often the scenario, yet AFP reporters had actually earlier found Russian prisoners of war being actually packed onto a bus near the edge.It will be actually the second exchange in between the warring countries due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said civilians were actually additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "woman who was taken hostage when she involved handle her unwell dad.".He claimed the substitution also included fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, along with soldiers, boundary protections as well as law enforcement officers.AFP spoke with 2 females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and acquiring blooms, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can't believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed car of Ukraine's National Protector, claimed.One more lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods concealing their skins, which were taken out as they were actually filled into a minivan.AFP spoke to a number of all of them for a while, and all those that spoke mentioned they were actually taken captive during the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught final month.