2022

�9�9 Feb 7: US President Joe Biden, at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, says: "If Russia invades Ukraine, there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring end to it."

�9�9 Feb 24: The Russia-Ukraine conflict breaks out.

�9�9 Sept 26: Nord Stream pipeline explosions occur off the Baltic island of Bornholm.

�9�9 Sept 27: Former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski, in his now-deleted Twitter account, shares a photograph of the gas leak, captioned, "Thank you, USA."

�9�9 Sept 30: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says: "It's a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy."

�9�9 September: Average natural gas prices in Europe are over seven times higher than prices in the US.

�9�9 Oct 10: Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson says Sweden will not share the findings of the crime scene investigation with Russia.

October: After preliminary investigations, Denmark and Sweden say they believe the pipelines have been sabotaged.

2023

�9�9 January: US supplies of liquefied natural gas to the EU rise by 154 percent year-on-year in 2022, data shows.

�9�9 Feb 8: Award-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh publishes an article titled "How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline".

�9�9 Feb 21: UN Security Council holds a briefing on the Nord Stream issue. Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the UN, calls for an objective, impartial and professional probe into the matter. Denmark, Germany and Sweden say Investigations have not yet concluded.

SOURCES: MEDIA REPORTS COMPILED BY XU WEIWEI