Dancing With The Stars pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy boards a flight to LA…after

He reached Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday after fleeing his war-torn native Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. 

And on in the early hours of Wednesday, Maksim Chmerkovskiy revealed he was about to get on a flight back to Los Angeles after his terrifying ordeal.

The Dancing With The Stars pro’s final leg of his journey came after he was arrested in Kyiv and then took a ‘traumatizing’ train ride full of women and children heading to Poland. 

The latest: He reached Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday after fleeing his war-torn native Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. And on in the early hours of Wednesday, Maksim Chmerkovskiy revealed he was about to get on a flight back to Los Angeles after his terrifying ordeal

The father of one, 42, captioned the video with: ‘Personal update. News from Ukraine. An important plea. Please spread.’

Maks shares five-year-old son Shai with wife Peta Murgatroyd; they reside in Los Angeles. 

The dancing pro was born in Ukraine but immigrated to New York with his parents and brother Val in 1994, where they became US citizens. 

The country announced last week that men of fighting age – between 18-60 – were prohibited from leaving Ukraine but since Maks holds a U.S. passport, he is exempt from the mandate. 

Flight home: The Dancing With The Stars pro’s final leg of his journey came after he was arrested in Kyiv and then took a ‘traumatizing’ train ride full of women and children heading to Poland

Journey: The father of one captioned the video with: ‘Personal update. News from Ukraine. An important plea. Please spread’

He kicked off the five minute video with a view of his plane as he waited inside Warsaw’s airport.

Maks said: ‘Hey I’m ready to go, boarding this plane,’ as he shows the plane at the tarmac.

‘I also found a patch of gray hairs that just came up that was definitely not there. That’s a little bit of a joke. But not a joke. I’m going to do my best, I don’t know if I can. I don’t have a good internet here. I’m going to try and put up some images – the latest… yesterday… a couple of days… this last night was insane.’

He went on to talk about the non-stop bombing throughout the country and casualties among civilians. 

Maksim slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin and said the Russian people are ‘confused’ and ‘not sure.’

Maksim said while waiting for his flight: ‘He doesn’t represent all the Russians,’ he said. Just want that to be very clear. I don’t want there to hate. I don’t want there to be disgust with them as a nation. They’re our brothers and sisters. My mom’s brother… his family lives in Russia.’

He continued: ‘My grandpa lives in Russia. On the Russia territory. They moved when they had no job, no work, no opportunity to another nearby village basically they are also scraping by.’

Adding: ‘It’s not like it was amazing. But the point to show – it’s just a neighborhood. To us it wasn’t moving a country… it’s just moving to a different neighborhood. So I’m not sure how to feel about it. I’m mostly angry. I’m also f****n angry and p****d. But it doesn’t represent everybody.’

‘I came from that place. USSR didn’t represent me and I think he doesn’t represent the good ones. We just got to help them and open their eyes. So keep talking, keep using your voice and so will I. I’m getting on a plane. Talk to you from LA,’ closing out the video.

From the heart: ‘I came from that place. USSR didn’t represent me and I think he doesn’t represent the good ones. We just got to help them and open their eyes. So keep talking, keep using your voice and so will I. I’m getting on a plane. Talk to you from LA,’ closing out the video