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Petro Poroshenko has become a grandfather on the day of his inauguration.

Poroshenko said so himself at the reception in Mystetskiy Arsenal art center that followed the inauguration ceremony on June 7, Channel Five’s anchor Tetiana Danylenko wrote on her Twitter.

The baby was delivered by Yuliya Poroshenko, the wife of Poroshenko’s eldest son Oleksiy, 29.

Oleksiy and Yuliya Poroshenko on their wedding day. (www.facebook.com/ali.julia)

Oleksiy Poroshenko is the deputy of regional council of Vynnytsia Oblast, the region that elected his father to parliament in 2012. His wife works at McKinsey & Company, her Facebook page says.