Oil had one of its biggest days of the year after the U.S. added new sanctions on Russian energy firms, but tight futures positioning set the stage for the big move.

Trump, who has to date not put sanctions on Russia over the war and instead relied on trade measures, says Rosneft and Lukoil will be targeted. Key US politics stories from…

The measures taken against Rosneft and Lukoil mark the first time the US has sanctioned Russia since Donald Trump’s return to office in January