Maksim Chmerkovskiy needs 'a lot of therapy' after fleeing Ukraine

The former Dancing With the Stars professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy was in Kyiv filming World of Dance when Russian president Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine but he managed to board a train and arrived in Poland on Tuesday following a gruelling 23hour journeyThe 42yearold star said he is confused and terrified as he called for people to rally together against Putin reports femalefirstcoukIn a lengthy video shared to Instagram he said Im scared Im confused Im terrified and I just lived through some s that Im going to need a lot of therapy forView this post on InstagramA post shared by Maksim Chmerkovskiy maksimcBut I know this its us little guys against the big guy I dont care how big Russian President Vladimir Putin is I dont care how mean he is When were together I can see what can happenWe can have a little guy finally win and it will be a joint effort and after that we can figure out how to make sure that theres never again one f person one man who can do whatever hes doingCurrently a mobilisation order reportedly stops men aged 1860 from leaving Ukraine so it is unclear how Maksim was allowed to do soThe dancer admitted the experience of getting to Poland was like out of a movieHe said When the train car got packed and packed and it kept getting more and more packed I was like hold on Im thinking to myself theres no air Theres no way that we can travel this wayChmerkovskiy who stood at the back of the train so others more in need could have a seat admitted he feels guilty for having escaped the warstricken regionHe said I thought about it my guilt I started to think about this and I came up with this analogyIn 94 I was put up for adoption and I got adopted by a beautiful young vibrant exciting forwardthinking country and I fell in love and I left Ukraine in 94 as a sad sad person because I felt like I was getting unrooted I was in this new countryBut I turned around and said You know what This is what Im going to do The 14yearold Maks with his family and all the love and support that he had did stuff and here we areChmerkovskiy who has fiveyearold son Shai with wife Pete Murgatroyd had reconnected with his native country after years of living in the US and had a very f hard time leaving this weekHe said Im having a horrible time Im having very mixed emotions I have my friends there my friends in the frontline I cant hear from some of the people I cant get in touch with them I dont know if theyre deadThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever