.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned from Russia, with AFP seeing the team being welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clarify whether it belonged to a substitution along with Russia, as is actually usually the situation, however AFP writers had actually previously viewed Russian hostages being actually packed onto a bus near the borderline.It will be the 2nd substitution between the warring countries because Kyiv's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were actually additionally one of the returnees, including a "female that was taken hostage when she came to care for her ill daddy.".He mentioned the swap also consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, and also soldiers, boundary shields and also law enforcement agents.AFP spoke to 2 women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also acquiring florals, who claimed they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, said.One more girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were actually taken out as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP talked to some of all of them briefly, plus all those who talked mentioned they were captured throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.