.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned coming from Russia, along with AFP witnessing the team being actually greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clarify whether it became part of a substitution with Russia, as is normally the situation, yet AFP writers had earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being actually packed onto a bus near the edge.It would be actually the 2nd exchange in between the challenging nations due to the fact that Kyiv's unpleasant surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk location.Zelensky mentioned civilians were also one of the returnees, including a "girl that was actually hijacked when she pertained to care for her sick papa.".He pointed out the exchange additionally featured competitors from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, in addition to soldiers, boundary shields as well as polices.AFP spoke with pair of girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags as well as obtaining blossoms, that said they went to the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually lastly home, I can not feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped auto of Ukraine's National Shield, claimed.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their faces, which were actually taken out as they were actually filled right into a minivan.AFP talked to several of them for a while, plus all those that talked claimed they were captured in the course of Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive last month.