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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday, Oct. 26 is staying in eastern Ukraine, his wife, Maryna Poroshenko, has said.

“My husband is in Donbas now. He went there with the purpose of controlling the course of voting,” she told reporters after casting her vote at a polling station in Kyiv.

She said that the president will do his duty and go to the polling station on Sunday, Oct. 26.