.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been returned from Russia, with AFP experiencing the group being greeted at the boundary along with Belarus.Zelensky did certainly not clear up whether it was part of a swap with Russia, as is actually generally the scenario, yet AFP journalists had previously seen Russian hostages being packed onto a bus near the perimeter.It would be actually the 2nd swap in between the warring countries considering that Kyiv’s surprise attack into Russia’s Kursk area.Zelensky mentioned civilians were actually also among the returnees, consisting of a “woman that was actually hijacked when she involved take care of her sick dad.”.He pointed out the swap additionally included fighters coming from Mariupol’s 2022 Azovstal war, along with soldiers, perimeter shields and also policemans.AFP talked with two girls in their 20s covered in Ukrainian flags and receiving flowers, that stated they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022.” I’m ultimately home, I can not feel it,” pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, leader of an armed auto of Ukraine’s National Guard, pointed out.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was a paramedic at the Azov unit that defended Azovstal.Earlier, AFP found the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually putting on hoods concealing their skins, which were taken out as they were actually loaded into a minivan.AFP spoke to some of them for a while, plus all those that communicated claimed they were actually taken captive during Ukraine’s surprise Kursk offensive last month.