I suspect the interests of disreputed international cliques are embroiled in all of this—to rack Ukraine, to sever our relationship with neighboring countries, to taint us with unfathomable despair, to make us waste time engaging in wranglings, and to slacken our Armed Forces.
I image Putin hatched up the scheme for permit free Hurks to begin with, he probably called Ursula up and put seed in her mind "what's else Ursula, are you gonna drop permits?" knowing that once the Hurks get that gibs they'll never let it go. The comedy writes itself, truckers in Poland and Slovakia, who's next?