{"id":1341980,"date":"2022-02-25T06:43:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1341980"},"modified":"2022-02-25T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:52:39","slug":"im-very-scared-dancing-with-the-stars-pro-maksim-chmerkovskiy-sends-video-from-kyiv-where-hes-filming-a-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-very-scared-dancing-with-the-stars-pro-maksim-chmerkovskiy-sends-video-from-kyiv-where-hes-filming-a-show\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Very Scared\u2019: \u2018Dancing With The Stars\u2019 Pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy Sends Video From Kyiv Where He\u2019s Filming A Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-very-scared-dancing-with-the-stars-pro-maksim-chmerkovskiy-sends-video-from-kyiv-where-hes-filming-a-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1341980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/Maksim-Chmerkovskiy-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Former \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d performer Maksim Chmerkovskiy shared an emotional <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaXDCGrgAhk\/\"><span>message<\/span><\/a><span> Thursday from his home country of Ukraine where he\u2019s been filming \u201cWorld of Dance Ukraine.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pro dancer included shots of the streets in Kyiv while expressing his innermost feelings about being in his home country during the Russian invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEverybody was hoping that the finality of this situation would be averted, that there wasn\u2019t going to be these kind of aggressive measures,\u201d he said while filming an ambulance racing down the street followed by what looked like a military vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m uneasy, I\u2019m very scared \u2026 but I do know, at the very least, I have a chance. I have a passport and a way out. A lot of people here do not, and it\u2019s f***ing nonsense,\u201d Chmerkovskiy continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a second video, the 42-year-old \u201cDWTS\u201d alum begins crying as he uses the camera to show the \u201creality\u201d of the situation while saying \u201cit\u2019s been a little difficult\u201d to be present during the conflict. \u201cYou know me \u2014 I stay strong, and I don\u2019t show it,\u201d the Ukrainian-born dancer says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut I want to go back home. And I realize that I have the way to \u2014 I realize that I have a different passport, and my family is far away,\u201d Chmerkovskiy says. He is married to fellow \u201cDWTS\u201d star Peta Murgatroyd and the couple has a 5-year-old son Shai Aleksander together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chmerkovskiy also uses his Instagram video to plead with Russian forces, saying he\u2019s \u201cabout to go into a bomb shelter because s*** is going down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn 2022\u2019s civilized world, this is not the way we do things,\u201d he said while addressing the camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think the Russians need to get up and actually say something, because no one\u2019s opinion is being heard. This is all one man\u2019s ambition of something, and however convenient it sounds in Moscow, however comfortable you are where you are in Russia, I just don\u2019t think this is the right thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, Chmerkovskiy\u2019s wife posted a social media update of her own begging for her husband\u2019s safety and the prayers of their fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPlease pray for my husband Maks,\u201d she wrote on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaYF5Owvj9X\/\"><span>Instagram<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cI don\u2019t usually ask for these things from my social media network, however today is extremely hard and the next few will be even harder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy pain is overwhelming and I\u2019m struggling, but you sending your positive light and love to him would mean the world to me. Truly, I wish for nothing more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She went on to say that while she doesn\u2019t have details on her husband, she knows he\u2019s safe for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPlease pray that he comes home soon. Please pray that he has a swift, safe exit. I have FAITH. I have HOPE and I have PRAYED so hard,\u201d Murgatroyd wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPlease pray for Ukraine and the innocent civilians whose lives are being greatly uprooted. I grew to love this country the couple of times I visited and they\u2019re in an unfathomable situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>Daily Wire member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d performer Maksim Chmerkovskiy shared an emotional message Thursday from his home country of Ukraine where he\u2019s been filming \u201cWorld of Dance Ukraine.\u201d\u00a0The pro dancer included<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}