.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been actually come back from Russia, along with AFP observing the group being welcomed at the perimeter along with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not clarify whether it became part of a swap with Russia, as is actually often the situation, yet AFP journalists had actually previously viewed Russian hostages being actually filled onto a bus near the borderline.It would certainly be actually the 2nd swap in between the warring nations given that Kyiv's surprise incursion in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky claimed private citizens were additionally one of the returnees, featuring a "lady who was taken hostage when she pertained to handle her sick daddy.".He claimed the swap also consisted of competitors coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, along with soldiers, border guards and also polices.AFP spoke with 2 females in their 20s covered in Ukrainian banners and obtaining florals, who said they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually finally home, I can't think it," mentioned 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed auto of Ukraine's National Protection, claimed.Another woman, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, stated she was a paramedic at the Azov brigade that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were using hoods concealing their faces, which were removed as they were loaded into a minivan.AFP contacted a few of all of them for a while, and all those that talked said they were taken captive in the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught last month.