.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the group being greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not make clear whether it belonged to a substitution along with Russia, as is commonly the situation, but AFP reporters had earlier found Russian hostages being actually packed onto a bus near the edge.It would certainly be the 2nd substitution in between the challenging countries given that Kyiv's surprise attack right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were likewise amongst the returnees, consisting of a "female who was actually taken hostage when she concerned care for her ill dad.".He mentioned the exchange additionally consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, boundary protections and police officers.AFP contacted 2 girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and receiving blossoms, that stated they went to the Azovstal plant that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an equipped vehicle of Ukraine's National Protection, pointed out.Yet another female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were actually eliminated as they were actually packed into a minivan.AFP talked to a few of all of them quickly, plus all those who communicated stated they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk aggression final month.