Former college basketball player Maurice Creek found himself in Ukraine during Russia’s invasion and recounted his experience while trying to get out of the country and back to the U.S.
“You start really feeling the actual effects of the war,” Creek told ABC News. “Like, I was getting jets going across my building, then I have to go to the bomb shelter and I look on social media, you see one jet hit one lady’s house like with a bomb like you know, with a missile. And it’s like, dude, I’m not sleeping today. I’m not doing that. I’m paranoid, terrified.”
Creek, who played for Indiana and then George Washington from 2009-14, was playing for the professional basketball team MBC Mykolaiv when Russia invaded. Creek spent last weekend in and out of bomb shelters before arriving to Odessa, but he was able to get to Romania by March 1. He was reunited with his family on Thursday.
