.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back coming from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is often the case, however AFP writers had previously observed Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the 2nd exchange between the warring countries because Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky mentioned private citizens were also one of the returnees, featuring a "female who was taken hostage when she pertained to care for her ill dad.".He mentioned the exchange additionally featured competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, in addition to soldiers, border protections and policemans.AFP spoke to pair of women in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and receiving blooms, that claimed they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm eventually home, I can not believe it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Shield, stated.Yet another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP saw the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on bonnets concealing their faces, which were actually removed as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP talked to a number of them for a while, plus all those that spoke claimed they were captured during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive final month.