.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned from Russia, with AFP observing the group being greeted at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is actually normally the situation, yet AFP journalists had previously found Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be actually the second swap between the warring countries since Kyiv's shock attack in to Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were actually additionally one of the returnees, consisting of a "female who was taken hostage when she concerned care for her sick daddy.".He claimed the swap also featured fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, boundary protectors and polices.AFP contacted pair of ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and also receiving blossoms, that stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not feel it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protector, claimed.An additional lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using bonnets hiding their faces, which were eliminated as they were actually packed into a minivan.AFP contacted some of all of them for a while, and all those that talked mentioned they were captured in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive final month.