May WTI crude oil futures rose 5.32% to $ 21.39 a barrel.
Futures for Brent crude for June delivery increased 6.67% to $ 26.39 per barrel.
Earlier, Vyacheslav Kulagin, director of the Center for the Study of World Energy Markets at the Institute for Energy Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the situation in the oil market in an interview with FBA “Economics Today”.