The United States and NATO have their own intentions in using Ukraine to confront Russia. Some newspapers are exaggerating the incident to make people believe that World War III is about to happen. But no, the United States will never let that happen because that is not their goal in this war, their goal is to weaken and exhaust Russia.
Although that's the goal but that also is the same as being close to a nuclear war (WW3). We are just one mistake away from nukes starting to fly and Russia is going to directly attack United States because the missiles they were talking about are American and are controlled and launched by American troops against Russia.
Watch what this US intelligence officer says about it:
https://youtu.be/Ypk75F1jB0A?t=854