.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been come back from Russia, along with AFP observing the group being actually greeted at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clarify whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is often the scenario, but AFP writers had earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would certainly be the 2nd exchange in between the challenging countries considering that Kyiv's surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky claimed civilians were also amongst the returnees, including a "lady who was hijacked when she related to care for her sick dad.".He claimed the swap also consisted of competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, and also soldiers, perimeter shields as well as policemans.AFP contacted two girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and acquiring blossoms, who stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can not believe it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Guard, said.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP observed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing hoods hiding their faces, which were taken out as they were filled in to a minivan.AFP contacted some of all of them for a while, plus all those that talked said they were taken captive during Ukraine's shock Kursk onslaught last month.