Dancing With The Stars performer Maksim Chmerkovskiy detailed his traumatizing escape from Ukraine amid Russias invasion in a series of Instagram stories on Monday.

The Ukrainian American dancer revealed he was on a packed, sweaty and claustrophobic train to Warsaw in Poland.

Im a big man with nothing but a backpack its TRAUMATIZING, wrote Chmerkovskiy, who was born in Odesa and immigrated to America in 1994.