by russia. ukraine's defense minister took to facebook just a few hours ago calling the russian assault a war crime. now, the international trivial courses says that it will open an investigation into the potential war crimes by russia. i want to turn to msnbc news news, correspondent, ralph sanchez in moscow. rat, let's talk about this wave of protests that we're seeing across. russia more than 6000 russians have been arrested since the invasion could begin. how significant are these protests? >> there are significant enough that russia state media has gone from ignoring them to denouncing. them we are seeing senior editors at state media outlets saying people who take part to the protests are unpatriotic, undermining the country during a time of war and that is a sign that the russian government feels threatened by them. as you, said 6000 people have been arrested now over the last week in dozens of cities across