.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned from Russia, along with AFP observing the team being actually welcomed at the border along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not make clear whether it belonged to a substitution with Russia, as is actually generally the scenario, yet AFP reporters had previously viewed Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be the 2nd swap between the warring nations because Kyiv's surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky mentioned civilians were actually likewise one of the returnees, including a "girl who was hijacked when she concerned handle her unwell daddy.".He mentioned the substitution also featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, border protections and polices.AFP spoke to pair of females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also receiving flowers, that claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can't feel it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped car of Ukraine's National Shield, pointed out.An additional girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, mentioned she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing hoods hiding their faces, which were gotten rid of as they were actually packed in to a minivan.AFP talked to a number of them for a while, and all those who talked stated they were taken captive throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk aggression final month.