Exactly seven years ago, However magazine published an article by a senior researcher in the December-January 2014-2015 issue Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST) Mikhail Barabanov's "Peace Enforcement-2: Russia's Immediate Prospect in Ukraine" (was also announced in a blog), which predicted the possibility of Russian military intervention to force peace in Ukraine, and primarily in the context of preventing NATO expansion into Ukraine.
Seven years later, the article still looks relevant in almost all respects and retains its significance as a forecast. The full text of the article is posted on the TSAST website.