June WTI crude futures rose 14.81% to $ 17.29 a barrel.
Futures for Brent crude for June delivery increased by 9.80% to $ 24.75 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”.