Maksim Chmerkovskiy is still trying to leave Ukraine.
The “Dancing With the Stars” alum posted a video to Instagram early Monday in which he told his followers that he was arrested in his home country amid Russia’s invasion and is figuring out how to get out.
“[There’s] a lot of fighting everywhere. Streets are crazy. At one point I got arrested. … But all good, promise,” he said in his nearly five-minute video.
“That was probably the least traumatizing moment in this whole thing as far as Ukraine is concerned, but for me, it was a reality check.”
Chmerkovskiy, 42, said he has “a lot to unpack” emotionally but is not in “a mental state right now to do so.”
“I’m just trying to stay focused,” he added.
The Ukrainian citizen also shared that he’s going to try to make his way to the border so he can cross over into Poland.
“I have options. My options are better than most people’s, unfortunately,” he admitted. “I’m a little nervous to be honest with you, but I think it’s going to be all right. Well, I know it’s going to be OK.”
He closed out his video by asking his viewers not to panic if he disappears on social media for a while because he is keeping in touch with his parents, brother and wife, Peta Murgatroyd.
Chmerkovskiy and his younger brother, Val Chmerkovskiy, who also competes on “DWTS,” were born in Odessa, Ukraine, and immigrated to the US with their family in 1994.
Maksim has been living on and off in Kyiv for the past six months filming “World of Dance UA,” splitting his time between there and Los Angeles, where he lives with Murgatroyd, 35, and their 5-year-old son, Shai.
“There’s ALWAYS another way! WAR is NEVER an answer,” Maks captioned a previous video when the Russians first invaded.
“I will never be the same,” he continued in his caption. “This is stressful and I’m getting old feelings back, like I’ve done this before. This does feel like the way it was when and why we left in the 90s. Like my old PTSD I’ve finally fixed is coming back.”