.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned from Russia, with AFP witnessing the team being welcomed at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky performed not make clear whether it was part of a substitution along with Russia, as is actually typically the situation, yet AFP journalists had actually earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being filled onto a bus near the border.It would be the second substitution between the challenging countries because Kyiv's shock incursion into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky stated civilians were additionally amongst the returnees, including a "female that was hijacked when she related to take care of her sick daddy.".He stated the exchange likewise featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, border guards and also law enforcement officers.AFP talked with two girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as receiving florals, who claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm lastly home, I can't think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed automobile of Ukraine's National Protector, said.An additional lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP found the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their faces, which were taken out as they were loaded right into a minivan.AFP talked with some of them briefly, plus all those that communicated claimed they were actually taken captive during the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.