U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul, who had previously blocked a vote on allocating funds to Ukraine, has won the midterm elections for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. That was the prediction made by The Washington Post on Tuesday, as well as several other U.S. media outlets.
Earlier, the Republican senator had opposed the fast-track approval of a nearly $40 billion aid package to Ukraine. The senator insisted on including a clause in the bill requiring the Washington administration to create a special inspector general to oversee military aid to Ukraine. Paul also abstained from voting on the resolution to ratify the protocols on Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
The U.S. midterm elections are on Tuesday. They elect all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of its Senate. In addition, governors of 36 states and three U.S. overseas territories are being elected. Local analysts do not rule out that the ruling Democratic Party may lose control of the House and Senate by giving it to the Republican opposition.