.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back coming from Russia, along with AFP watching the group being greeted at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clear up whether it was part of a substitution with Russia, as is actually normally the case, however AFP reporters had actually previously found Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be the 2nd swap in between the challenging nations due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said private citizens were actually additionally amongst the returnees, including a "gal who was actually taken hostage when she pertained to handle her ill father.".He mentioned the swap additionally featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, boundary guards as well as policemans.AFP spoke with pair of ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as obtaining flowers, that claimed they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not believe it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Guard, mentioned.Yet another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods hiding their skins, which were actually cleared away as they were filled in to a minivan.AFP spoke with a number of all of them temporarily, plus all those who talked stated they were actually captured during Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught last month.