.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned from Russia, along with AFP watching the group being greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clear up whether it belonged to a substitution with Russia, as is actually normally the situation, however AFP journalists had previously seen Russian hostages being actually loaded onto a bus near the edge.It would be the 2nd swap in between the challenging countries because Kyiv's shock incursion right into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky said civilians were actually additionally amongst the returnees, featuring a "girl who was actually hijacked when she related to look after her unwell dad.".He pointed out the substitution also consisted of boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal war, in addition to soldiers, perimeter protections and police officers.AFP talked to pair of girls in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian banners and obtaining florals, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm finally home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed automobile of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP observed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were wearing hoods concealing their skins, which were gotten rid of as they were actually filled in to a minivan.AFP spoke with some of all of them briefly, and all those that talked stated they were actually captured throughout Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught last month.