.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being actually greeted at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clarify whether it became part of a substitution with Russia, as is normally the instance, however AFP journalists had earlier found Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be the second substitution in between the warring countries considering that Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky said private citizens were actually likewise amongst the returnees, featuring a "lady who was taken hostage when she related to handle her sick daddy.".He claimed the substitution also included fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, boundary protections as well as law enforcement officers.AFP spoke with 2 women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners as well as obtaining florals, who stated they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can't think it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed lorry of Ukraine's National Shield, claimed.One more girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using bonnets concealing their faces, which were actually removed as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked to several of all of them briefly, and all those that communicated said they were actually taken captive during the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught final month.