‘DWTS’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy Reunites With Wife After Escaping Ukraine War

Maksim Chmerkovski has gotten to safety in the United States after escaping war-torn Ukraine … and he just met his wife at the airport.

Watch this emotional video of “Dancing With The Stars” alumni on Wednesday at LAX … you’ll see that she’s happy to see her better spouse, Peta Murgatroydafter a painful experience in Europe … and they share a long embrace and a kiss.

Maxim is clearly impressed with what he saw in the middle of the war … and he says he’s just trying to deal with everything that just happened in Kiev, where bombs explode.

It’s scary … Maxim says that when he was in Ukraine, he was told to get a gun and watch YouTube videos of the use of the AK-47 … but he says he decided to document the whole world to see using his own. iPhone as a weapon instead of a firearm.

Maxim also has strong words for a Russian powerhouse Vladimir Putin … wishing him a similar fate as Adolf Hitler.

For Maxim, it is the culmination of a long journey as he flees his homeland to Ukraine and the Russian invasion that destroyed his countrymen.

Maxim, who lived in Ukraine until he was 14 and then recently returned to Kiev to work on a dance competition show, documented much of the bold journey on social media … first shared a video of him on the balcony of the capital with sirens playing. shouted around him.

Stuck in Kiev as Russian troops besieged the city, Maksim spent time in a bomb shelter before boarding a train traveling to Poland. The train ended up in a gossip, and on his way to Warsaw he says he saw the boy saying goodbye to his father.

About 16 hours ago, Maksim got on a plane from Poland … and now he’s safe in the United States.