“Dancing with the Stars” professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy made it into Poland on Tuesday after fleeing his native Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.
In an update on Instagram, Chmerkovskiy wrote that he’d gone 31 hours without sleeping, and was still an hour and a half away from the destination after leaving Ukraine on Monday aboard a train.
“I absolutely have to say this: POLISH PEOPLE ARE AMAZING!!!!!!!” Chmerkovskiy wrote in a post to his Instagram story. “THANK YOU FROM THE ABSOLUTE BOTTOM OF MY HEART AND SOUL.”
