.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back from Russia, with AFP watching the team being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out certainly not clear up whether it became part of a swap along with Russia, as is usually the scenario, yet AFP writers had actually previously found Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the edge.It will be the 2nd substitution in between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky pointed out civilians were actually also among the returnees, consisting of a "woman who was actually taken hostage when she came to take care of her sick papa.".He claimed the swap additionally included fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, border shields as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked with two ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as receiving flowers, that stated they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can not feel it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed lorry of Ukraine's National Protector, said.One more female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP saw the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their faces, which were taken out as they were actually loaded in to a minivan.AFP spoke with some of all of them for a while, plus all those that talked claimed they were captured during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught final month.