LUKOIL Head Vagit Alekperov said that petroleum stations of the company in Crimea were sold for development of small and medium-scale business.
According to Alekperov, the company has about 250 petroleum stations in Ukraine, mainly in the central, southern and the western parts of the country. They operate normally, despite protests at some of them.
In his words, LUKOIL has about 5,000 Ukrainian employees.