“Dancing With the Stars” alum Maksim Chmerkovskiy is now in Poland after what he described as a “traumatizing” trip over 31 hours without sleep.
Chmerkovskiy, who was born in Ukraine, said Monday that he would be fleeing the country and making the journey to the Polish border after revealing that he had been arrested and then released by Russian forces. And in his latest Instagram story over the last 24 hours, he described the overcrowded conditions on trains as he and dozens of others tried to make it out of the country.
“Long story but all I can say now is that I’m a big man with nothing but a backpack, [but] it’s traumatizing.