.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been come back from Russia, with AFP observing the group being welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky carried out not clear up whether it was part of an exchange with Russia, as is normally the situation, but AFP writers had actually previously seen Russian hostages being packed onto a bus near the border.It would be the 2nd exchange in between the warring countries since Kyiv's shock incursion in to Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were additionally among the returnees, consisting of a "female who was taken hostage when she related to handle her ill daddy.".He said the exchange additionally featured fighters coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal fight, and also soldiers, border protectors as well as policemans.AFP talked to two girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and also receiving blooms, who mentioned they were at the Azovstal vegetation that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I'm ultimately home, I can not think it," claimed 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped automobile of Ukraine's National Guard, pointed out.An additional girl, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was actually a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually wearing bonnets hiding their skins, which were actually gotten rid of as they were loaded into a minivan.AFP talked with a number of all of them for a while, and all those who spoke stated they were actually captured in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive final month.