[pyrale]

> It took explosives for the EU to curtail its Russian natural gas use.

Assuming you refer to NS2 blowup, it was unused when it got sabotaged.

[zer00eyz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_pipelines_sabotage

NS1 was hit at the same time as well.

NS2 had not been activated and NS1 was undergoing work at the time.