MOSCOW, April 01. /ITAR-TASS/. Sochi Olympic kit and leisure sportswear outfitters, Russia's BOSCO stores are withdrawing from the markets of Ukraine and Crimea, representatives told ITAR-TASS on Tuesday.

A store executive based in Crimean Yalta could not say what had prompted the decision to close the store now located in Russia since Crimea’s accession to the Russian Federation.

All six stores operating in Ukraine and in Crimea will be closed. There are two boutiques in Kiev, others in the cities of Kharkov and Donetsk in Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speaking east , and in the Black Sea city of Odessa in Ukraine’s south.