.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP seeing the team being actually greeted at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not make clear whether it was part of a swap along with Russia, as is actually often the scenario, however AFP journalists had previously observed Russian hostages being packed onto a bus near the border.It would certainly be actually the second exchange between the warring nations considering that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky said civilians were actually likewise one of the returnees, including a "woman that was taken hostage when she came to take care of her unwell daddy.".He said the exchange likewise featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, in addition to soldiers, boundary shields and policemans.AFP spoke with two women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and receiving flowers, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protector, said.Another female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods hiding their faces, which were actually cleared away as they were loaded in to a minivan.AFP talked with a few of them temporarily, and all those who communicated said they were taken captive during the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught final month.