Brent oil prices go up by more than 5%

As of 12:30 Moscow time, the price of May futures for North Sea Brent crude oil rose by 5.03% to $ 28.39 per barrel.

The price of May futures for WTI crude oil increased by 5.48% to $ 24.64 per barrel.

Earlier, an economist, director of the Institute of the New Society, Vasily Koltashov, in an interview with URA.RU, assessed the situation in the oil and financial markets.