Elsewhere, six people were wounded in Russian airstrikes on Ukraine overnight, local authorities said, while Russia’s ongoing fuel crisis deepened into parts of Siberia.
Separately, analysts in a Reuters poll expect US crude inventories to have fallen last week, along with distillate and gasoline inventories.
On Monday, government data showed US crude stocks in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 331.2 million barrels last week, the lowest since June 1983, as supplies tightened in the wake of the US-Iran conflict.
(Reporting by Anushree Mukherjee and Pranav Mathur in Bengaluru and Trixie Yap in Singapore. Editing by Jacqueline Wong, Shri Navaratnam and Mark Potter)