Dancing with the Stars alum Maksim Chmerkovskiy, 42, fled Ukraine following the horrific invasion by Russia on February 22.
And one day after Maksim arrived safely back in the United States to be with his wife Peta Murgatroyd, 35, and 5-year-old son, Shai Aleksander, Maksim’s Ukrainian-born father Aleksandr Chmerkovskiy, started Ukrainian relief charity Baranova27 to help those being affected by the horrific war that is still going on.
Since its inception on March 3, the Chmerkovskiy family’s organization has raised nearly $120,000 which is being used to send more than 135,000 pounds of goods to Ukraine!
According to a post on March 17 on Baranova27’s official Instagram, in 11 days that have received an unbelievable amount of donated goods, including 22,000 pounds of “childcare, food, and hygiene products”, as well as 30,000 pounds of “medical and soldier supplies.” In addition, the humanitarian relief organization — which is based in Fort Lee, New Jersey — has 85,000 pounds of goods that are either in transit to Ukraine, or on the way to the warehouse, where it will be packaged and sent to Ukraine over the course of the next several months.
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