.Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had actually been returned from Russia, with AFP observing the group being actually welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clarify whether it belonged to a swap along with Russia, as is actually usually the scenario, but AFP writers had actually earlier observed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be the 2nd swap in between the warring nations because Kyiv's surprise attack into Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky pointed out civilians were actually additionally one of the returnees, including a "female who was actually hijacked when she came to take care of her unwell papa.".He stated the swap additionally included boxers coming from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, as well as soldiers, boundary protectors and law enforcement officers.AFP contacted pair of ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and also obtaining blooms, who stated they went to the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can not think it," stated 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed automobile of Ukraine's National Shield, mentioned.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a paramedic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian armed forces steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on bonnets hiding their skins, which were actually eliminated as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP spoke with some of them temporarily, and all those that spoke mentioned they were captured during the course of Ukraine's surprise Kursk onslaught final month.