(U.S.-Ukraine geopolitics - puppet state - scroll down for documentation)  2014 - Sen. John McCain also showed up, standing on stage with right-wing extremists from the Svoboda Party and telling the crowd that the United States was with them in their challenge to the Ukrainian government. U.S. diplomats and the mainstream U.S. press immediately blamed Yanukovych for the sniper attack, though the circumstances remain murky to this day and some investigations have suggested that the lethal sniper fire came from buildings controlled by Right Sektor extremists. To tamp down the worsening violence, a shaken Yanukovych signed a European-brokered deal Feb. 21, in which he accepted reduced powers and an early election so he could be voted out of office. He agreed to requests from Vice President Joe Biden to pull back the police. — The precipitous police withdrawal opened the path for neo-Nazis and other (ultra right) street fighters to seize presidential offices and force Yanukovych’s people to flee for their lives. Yanukovych traveled to eastern Ukraine and the new coup regime that took power – and was immediately declared 'legitimate' by U.S. State Department – sought Yanukovych’s arrest for murder.