.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP watching the team being welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clarify whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is normally the case, but AFP journalists had actually earlier found Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the edge.It would be the 2nd substitution between the warring countries due to the fact that Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually likewise among the returnees, consisting of a "gal who was actually taken hostage when she came to look after her sick dad.".He claimed the swap likewise featured fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, border shields as well as police officers.AFP spoke to 2 girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as acquiring florals, that said they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed lorry of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Yet another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their skins, which were eliminated as they were loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke with some of them briefly, plus all those that communicated said they were actually captured during Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression final month.