MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS/. The price of Brent crude futures with settlement in October on London's ICE exchange rose above $91 per barrel for the first time since July 31 of this year, according to trading data.

As of 5:56 p.m. GMT, Brent crude was up 3.04% to $91.21 per barrel.

By 6:01 p.m. GMT, Brent crude had slowed to $90.99 per barrel (up 2.79%). Meanwhile, WTI crude futures with settlement in September rose 2.74% to $84.66 per barrel.

Russian air defenses down 822 Ukrainian drones overnight

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov and Tula regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Crimea, as well as over the Azov and Black Seas

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