.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday that 49 Ukrainian POWs had been actually returned from Russia, with AFP observing the group being actually greeted at the border with Belarus.Zelensky did not clarify whether it was part of a substitution with Russia, as is actually typically the scenario, yet AFP reporters had actually earlier viewed Russian hostages being filled onto a bus near the border.It would be the 2nd substitution between the challenging nations because Kyiv's unpleasant surprise incursion right into Russia's Kursk region.Zelensky pointed out private citizens were likewise one of the returnees, consisting of a "girl who was hijacked when she pertained to care for her sick dad.".He mentioned the substitution also featured fighters from Mariupol's 2022 Azovstal battle, in addition to soldiers, perimeter shields and polices.AFP talked with two ladies in their 20s wrapped in Ukrainian flags and getting blossoms, that stated they were at the Azovstal vegetation that fell to Russia after a siege in 2022." I am actually eventually home, I can't feel it," pointed out 28-year-old Tamara Miroshnikova, commander of an equipped lorry of Ukraine's National Shield, mentioned.An additional female, 29-year-old Tetiana Bugay, claimed she was actually a medic at the Azov unit that fought for Azovstal.Previously, AFP viewed the Ukrainian military steering Russian POWs in a bus, some were actually using bonnets hiding their faces, which were removed as they were packed in to a minivan.AFP talked to a few of them briefly, plus all those that talked mentioned they were actually captured during Ukraine's unpleasant surprise Kursk offensive last month.