Creek had hoped to evacuate the country on Friday but was unsuccessful.

“It’s bad today,” Creek told the Herald-Times via direct message. “Let’s just say I’m in a bomb shelter.”

Creek was playing for Mykolaiv in the Superleague this season. Mykolaiv is a city near Ukraine’s southern coast on the Black Sea.

Though the United States State Department advised all American citizens to leave the country two weeks ago because of intelligence that Russia intended to launch an offensive on Ukraine, the league did not pause play until this week.

According to the European basketball website Eurobasket.com, Creek’s most recent game with Mykolaiv was Feb. 17. Fighting began early Thursday morning in Ukraine and has intensified since. Attacks on airports and the use of underground train stations as bomb shelters have made it increasingly difficult to get out of the country.

Creek spent four years at Indiana, but played just 54 games in three seasons due to injuries. He fractured his patella twice and also tore his Achilles tendon. He played limited minutes on the 2012-13 Indiana team that won the Big Ten title and reached the Sweet 16, then transferred to George Washington where he averaged 14.1 points per game and helped lead the Colonials to an NCAA tournament berth in 2014.

Since then, Creek has played professionally overseas in The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Israel and Romania as well as Ukraine. He previously played in Ukraine in the 2018-19 season, so this is the only country where he has played two seasons.