.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the group being greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it was part of an exchange along with Russia, as is usually the situation, however AFP reporters had earlier seen Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the border.It will be actually the second swap in between the warring nations due to the fact that Kyiv’s surprise attack right into Russia’s Kursk region.Zelensky said civilians were likewise one of the returnees, consisting of a “female that was actually taken hostage when she involved deal with her ill daddy.”.He said the swap also consisted of boxers from Mariupol’s 2022 Azovstal struggle, along with soldiers, border protections and also polices.AFP talked with pair of women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as receiving flowers, who said they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022.” I am actually eventually home, I can not feel it,” mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed motor vehicle of Ukraine’s National Protection, said.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods concealing their faces, which were actually removed as they were filled in to a minivan.AFP talked to several of them for a while, and all those that spoke stated they were actually taken captive during the course of Ukraine’s shock Kursk aggression final month.