.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually come back from Russia, with AFP experiencing the team being greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clear up whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is typically the situation, however AFP writers had actually earlier seen Russian prisoners of war being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be actually the 2nd swap in between the challenging nations due to the fact that Kyiv's shock attack right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky claimed civilians were likewise among the returnees, featuring a "female who was hijacked when she involved care for her ill dad.".He said the substitution likewise included boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, as well as soldiers, perimeter guards and polices.AFP contacted 2 ladies in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners as well as getting flowers, that claimed they were at the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't believe it," said 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped motor vehicle of Ukraine's National Protector, said.One more woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets hiding their skins, which were removed as they were loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke with some of them for a while, plus all those who communicated said they were actually taken captive during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk offensive final month.