.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, along with AFP watching the team being welcomed at the boundary with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clear up whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is typically the scenario, yet AFP journalists had actually previously observed Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the border.It would be the second substitution in between the warring countries considering that Kyiv's shock attack into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky claimed civilians were likewise amongst the returnees, consisting of a "lady that was hijacked when she came to handle her unwell papa.".He said the substitution additionally consisted of competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, boundary guards and also policemans.AFP talked with pair of women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and acquiring florals, that stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can't think it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Shield, said.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using hoods concealing their skins, which were actually taken out as they were filled right into a minivan.AFP spoke to several of all of them temporarily, and all those that spoke stated they were captured throughout Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression last month.