.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned coming from Russia, with AFP watching the group being actually welcomed at the perimeter with Belarus.Zelensky performed certainly not make clear whether it belonged to an exchange along with Russia, as is actually usually the scenario, yet AFP reporters had actually earlier viewed Russian prisoners of war being actually loaded onto a bus near the borderline.It will be actually the 2nd exchange in between the warring nations given that Kyiv's shock attack in to Russia's Kursk area.Zelensky said private citizens were actually likewise among the returnees, including a "woman who was hijacked when she concerned look after her unwell papa.".He mentioned the exchange also included boxers from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal struggle, and also soldiers, perimeter protections as well as police officers.AFP talked with two females in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags as well as receiving flowers, who stated they were at the Azovstal plant that was up to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can not feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an armed vehicle of Ukraine's National Shield, stated.Another lady, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, said she was actually a medic at the Azov brigade that fought for Azovstal.Earlier, AFP viewed the Ukrainian army steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were putting on hoods concealing their faces, which were removed as they were actually loaded into a minivan.AFP contacted a few of all of them for a while, plus all those that communicated mentioned they were actually taken captive in the course of Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk onslaught last month.