 NPR's Tamara Keith reporting. Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't see the conflict in Ukraine ending in anything short of destroying Ukrainian statehood. That's according to a recent report by the Institute for the Study of War. NPR's Ashley Westerman has more from Ukraine. In a Friday meeting in Moscow with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the Russian leader firmly rejected the idea of a ceasefire, insisting that one would only allow Ukraine to regroup and rearm.