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Crude falls after 1% gain in previous session

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US demand to ease at the end of summer driving season

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Russian oil supplies through Druzhba pipeline restart

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Indian buying pattern of Russian oil in focus

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By Alex Lawler

LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Oil fell on Thursday after

rising in the previous session, pressured by expectations of

lower U.S. fuel demand with the end of the summer travel season

and by the restart of Russian supply to Hungary and Slovakia

through the Druzhba pipeline.

Crude had risen on Wednesday after official data showed

U.S. crude inventories fell by 2.4 million barrels in the week

ended August 22, compared with analysts' expectations in a

Reuters poll for a 1.9-million-barrel draw, a sign of strong

demand.

However, oil market participants see the upcoming U.S.

Labor Day long weekend as the unofficial end of the summer

driving season, and the onset of lower U.S. demand for gasoline.

Brent crude futures dropped 19 cents, or 0.3%, to

$67.86 at 0820 GMT, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude

futures declined 29 cents, or 0.5%, to $63.86.

"This weekend's U.S. bank holiday marks the end of the

driving season and gasoline has hardly been the panacea hoped

for in terms of demand," said John Evans of oil broker PVM.

"Any short-term reasons to be friendly towards oil

prices are diminishing," he added, citing the Druzhba

resumption.

Russian crude supplies to Hungary and Slovakia through the

Druzhba pipeline have restarted after an outage caused by a

Ukrainian attack in Russia last week, Hungarian oil company MOL

and Slovakia's economy minister said on Thursday.

Traders are also watching out for how New Delhi responds to

pressure from Washington to stop buying Russian oil, after U.S.

President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on imports from India to

as much as 50% on Wednesday.

"India is expected to continue purchasing crude oil from

Russia at least in the short term, which should limit the impact

of the new tariffs on global supply," IG market analyst Tony

Sycamore said.

Lending some support to prices, Russia and Ukraine have

stepped up attacks on each other's energy infrastructure.

Russia launched a massive drone attack on energy and gas

transport infrastructure across six Ukrainian regions overnight,

leaving more than 100,000 people without power, Ukrainian

officials said on Wednesday.

(Additional reporting by Sam Li in Beijing and Siyi Liu in

Singapore; Editing by Louise Heavens)