The rape of Iryna Krashkova, a 29-year-old woman, on 26 June 2013 by three men in the urban-type settlement of Vradiivka became a cause célèbre in Ukraine when anger at police for not arresting one of the suspects led to angry protests and the storming of the district police department on 1 July 2013.

[3] Krashkova was hospitalized with open fractures of the skull, wounds to the head and face, multiple bruises and hematomas.

[6][14][15][16] During the investigation the Deputy Chief of the Vradiivka police department, Major Mykhailo Kudrinskiy, was charged with concealing the crime.

[17] On 7 July 2013 a group of about a dozen people started a protest march from Vradiivka to (the capital) Kyiv with planned to camp on Maidan Nezalezhnosti indefinitely until their concerns have been addressed.

[19] On 29 November 2013 a Ukrainian court sentenced Dryzhak and Polischuk to 15 years of imprisonment each, with confiscation of their properties and deprivation of their police ranks.