The Kremlin has passed comment on Biden’s trip to the Middle East where he is expected to ask Gulf producers to boost crude production.

• "We highly appreciate our relations and our interaction with Riyadh and we certainly hope that the building of relations and the development of relations between Riyadh and other world capitals will in no way be directed against us." Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today.
• "We are within the framework of the OPEC + agreements, and we highly appreciate the work that we manage to do with our partners, including with leading partners such as Saudi Arabia," he said.