Rachel Abrams

What is that hat?

I couldn't tell if it was actually like one of those Soviet type hats that is like very furry and very warm.

So there has been a lot of news about the war in Ukraine this past week and a possible peace plan that might actually end it.

But this is not the first time that we have heard about plans to end the war.

And it is kind of hard to tell at this point what is real movement and what is not.

So we're turning to you to try to understand what's happened.

You've spent a lot of time in Ukraine.

You've covered the war.

What do you make of what has happened in the past few days?

Given all of that, it makes total sense why Ukrainians would be so desperate to end the war.

But you also mentioned this peace plan that was leaked that has seemed to at least initially heavily favor Russia.

And I just wonder, given that, how did Ukrainians react to it?

So it sounds like basically, if I have this right, this anti-corruption agency is releasing almost like a mini-series about this scandal to the public?

I'm obviously no expert in Ukrainian anti-corruption investigations, but at least in the United States, that kind of announcement would be a bit unusual.

Why would they release videos like this as opposed to just, I don't know, a press conference?

After the break, David Sanger explains where this peace plan actually came from and the diplomatic scramble it set off.

We'll be right back.

David, we just heard from Kim Barker about how this leaked peace plan was so poorly received in Ukraine because it seemed like it might as well have been written by Russia.

It seemed so incredibly lopsided.

Is that your take?