Comment by khokhol

This is a dodge, and you are (rather verbosely) wiggling away from acknowledging a plainly counterfactual statement you just made:

   In 2022 Ukraine shut down the pipeline to the EU in 2009 and again in 2014

You can dissect the 2009 and 2014 gas disputes, and speculate about who "provoked" whom all you want -- but as a matter of public record that it was the the Russian operator who cut the flow of gas in each case, not its counterpart.