.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back coming from Russia, along with AFP experiencing the team being actually welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it belonged to an exchange with Russia, as is generally the situation, however AFP writers had actually earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being loaded onto a bus near the border.It would be the second exchange between the warring countries since Kyiv's shock incursion into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky said civilians were likewise among the returnees, including a "woman who was actually taken hostage when she pertained to care for her unwell daddy.".He mentioned the substitution additionally featured boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, as well as soldiers, boundary shields and also law enforcement agents.AFP spoke to pair of women in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also receiving blooms, who stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually ultimately home, I can not believe it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed auto of Ukraine's National Protector, stated.Another girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces driving Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets concealing their skins, which were gotten rid of as they were actually loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke to some of all of them temporarily, plus all those that talked claimed they were taken captive throughout Ukraine's shock Kursk offensive final month.