As of 16:33 Moscow time, the price of June futures for WTI crude oil rose by 24.80% and reached $ 15.40 per barrel.
Brent crude for June delivery rose 11.39% to $ 22.79 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”.