Maksim Chmerkovskiy is reporting live from Ukraine. The Dancing With the Stars alum shared videos on Thursday (February 24) following the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Click inside to read more… Maksim is currently filming a project, World of Dance UA. “This is the reality,” he says, showcasing vehicles rolling by, including an army truck. “I’m in Kyiv, contrary to what I probably should’ve done a while ago, and not that no one saw this coming, but everybody was hoping that the finality of this situation would be averted, that there wasn’t going to be these kind of aggressive measures,” he continued. “I want to go back home [to the U.S.].
And I realize that I have the way to — I realize that I have a different passport, and my family is far away.” He is married to fellow DWTS pro Peta Murgatroyd and the couple have a 5-year-old son together. “In 2022’s civilized world, this is not the way we do things.
I think the Russians need to get up and actually say something, because no one’s opinion is being heard. This is all one man’s ambition of something, and however convenient it sounds in Moscow, however comfortable you are where you are in Russia, I just don’t think this is the right thing,” he continued. “I’m uneasy, I’m very scared … but I do know, at the very least, I have a chance.
I have a passport and a way out. A lot of people here do not, and it’s f–king nonsense.” “I have [had] a f–king incredible pleasure to spend, on the ground, about six months now, and I’ve fell back in love — I never fell out of love, but I know now who these people are.
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