.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually returned from Russia, along with AFP observing the group being actually welcomed at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did not make clear whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is actually often the case, yet AFP reporters had previously seen Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be the second substitution between the warring countries because Kyiv’s shock attack right into Russia’s Kursk area.Zelensky claimed civilians were actually likewise amongst the returnees, including a “woman who was actually hijacked when she related to handle her ill dad.”.He pointed out the substitution likewise featured competitors coming from Mariupol’s 2022 Azovstal war, and also soldiers, perimeter protections as well as law enforcement agents.AFP talked with 2 girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and also receiving blossoms, who stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022.” I am actually eventually home, I can not feel it,” claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped car of Ukraine’s National Protection, said.One more female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian army driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were using bonnets concealing their skins, which were actually gotten rid of as they were actually filled right into a minivan.AFP talked to a few of them for a while, plus all those that talked mentioned they were taken captive during Ukraine’s shock Kursk offensive last month.