“My parents fled this country for this exact reason,” Valentin “Val” Chmerkovskiy posted to Instagram on Thursday (Feb.
24). The Ukrainian-American dancer shared a video from The New York Times that showed citizens fleeing the city of Kyiv as Russian troops invaded the country.
Val, 35, said that his parents left Ukraine “not because it wasn’t good to them, but because their kids would see war eventually.
It’s a cruel irony that 28 years later, my brother [Maksim “Maks” Chmerkovskiy] is in a bombshelter (sic) in [Kyiv].” Val wrote that had his parents not decided to leave their native country, he would “be on the front lines defending my home right now.
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