.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being greeted at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky did not clear up whether it was part of a swap along with Russia, as is actually normally the situation, however AFP reporters had actually earlier viewed Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be actually the 2nd swap between the warring nations since Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were actually additionally among the returnees, including a "lady who was actually hijacked when she pertained to look after her ill father.".He mentioned the exchange likewise featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, as well as soldiers, border guards and policemans.AFP spoke to pair of girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and acquiring blooms, that stated they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can not feel it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Shield, stated.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets hiding their faces, which were removed as they were loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke to some of all of them quickly, plus all those that communicated claimed they were actually captured during Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive last month.