Russia wants control of Ukraine’s Gas and they want a warm water port on the Baltic. Thats it. They are not going to attack Europe when all they have to do is turn the gas off.
The only thing Russia wants from Ukraine and Poland is to get rid of them as an unstable route for the gas trade with Europe, where they demand free gas and demand unreasonable transit fees.
There is exactly nothing of value in either country for Russia to get into a conflict over.
Baltic countries are more useless than that.
They used to be Soviet ports in the old times. Now Russia has developed her own ports in the Baltic and doesn’t want to hear about Baltic states anymore.
Scaremongering on the part of all the above characters is to attract attention and to extract free money from the West against non-existent threats.
Russia needs European trade, it is not interested in a war.