April WTI crude futures fell 1.99% to $ 31.10 a barrel.

Futures for Brent crude for May delivery fell 3.37% to $ 32.71 per barrel.

Earlier, Vyacheslav Kulagin, director of the Center for the Study of World Energy Markets at the Institute for Energy Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the situation in the oil market in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today”.