.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being actually welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed not clear up whether it belonged to an exchange along with Russia, as is actually usually the situation, however AFP journalists had earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being actually filled onto a bus near the border.It will be actually the second substitution between the warring countries because Kyiv's surprise attack in to Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky mentioned civilians were additionally amongst the returnees, featuring a "girl that was hijacked when she concerned look after her ill dad.".He pointed out the exchange also consisted of competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, along with soldiers, perimeter guards and also policemans.AFP talked with pair of girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also acquiring blossoms, that claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not think it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Shield, stated.Yet another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets hiding their faces, which were eliminated as they were actually packed into a minivan.AFP spoke with several of them briefly, plus all those who talked stated they were captured in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.