.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, along with AFP seeing the group being actually welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky did not clarify whether it became part of a substitution along with Russia, as is actually often the scenario, however AFP writers had earlier found Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be actually the second substitution in between the warring countries because Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky said private citizens were actually also amongst the returnees, consisting of a "lady who was hijacked when she came to deal with her unwell daddy.".He claimed the swap likewise included fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, as well as soldiers, border protections as well as polices.AFP talked to 2 girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and receiving florals, who mentioned they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't feel it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed auto of Ukraine's National Shield, mentioned.An additional female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods concealing their faces, which were actually removed as they were actually loaded into a minivan.AFP talked with a few of all of them briefly, plus all those that communicated said they were actually captured during the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk aggression last month.