.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the group being actually welcomed at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky did not clear up whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is generally the case, however AFP journalists had earlier seen Russian hostages being loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the second exchange between the challenging nations since Kyiv's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said private citizens were also one of the returnees, featuring a "gal who was actually taken hostage when she related to care for her unwell daddy.".He pointed out the substitution also consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, and also soldiers, perimeter guards as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked with 2 women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as receiving flowers, who mentioned they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can't think it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protector, claimed.An additional female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their faces, which were eliminated as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP contacted a number of them briefly, and all those who spoke stated they were captured throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression last month.