Maksim Chmerkovskiy shares that he made Poland safely out of his native Ukraine.
The "Dancing with the Stars" alum continues to document her time in Ukraine during the invasion by the Russian military.
In a note posted to his Instagram stories late Monday, Chmerkovskiy wrote that he made it on a train bound for Poland.
"We are going to Warsaw, hopefully. The train to Lviv was not an option," the note read. "The situation at the train station is crazy. At first it seems manageable but when it comes time to actually board the train it gets really bad. Long story but now all I can say is that I'm a grown man, But nothing beats a backpack and it's painful."
He wrote that he was squeezed into a train cabin that usually holds no more than three people "along with four adults and 7 children (ages 2-11)."
"There are usually 30 people in this particular wagon. We were told we had to fit 135," he said. "Walkways are packed. People everywhere. It's sweaty and claustrophobic."
He wrote about an emotional scene he had witnessed.
"It finally broke me when I saw an eight-ish-year-old boy crying hysterically and not wanting to let his father go," Chmerkovsky wrote. "Verbatim: 'If you stay, I want to stay too because if they kill you I won't be able to help.
In a later video, the dancer and choreographer reiterated that the train's cars were packed with over 100 people inside and that they were at a stop outside the Polish border as the train had to change wheels.
"You can't make it up," he said.
Chmerkovskiy later posted that after 31 hours without sleep, he had made it to Poland.
"I absolutely have to say this: Polish people are amazing!!!!!," he wrote in a note. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
According to his rep, Chmerkovskiy, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine in the 1990s, was in Ukraine last week working on the reality competition series "World of Dance U".