New federal restrictions threaten licenses for noncitizen truckers, including Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion New federal restrictions threaten licenses for noncitizen truckers, including Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion K arina Krainova, who worked as a trucker in the US after fleeing Russia ’s invasion of Ukraine, where she is from, rushed to the closest motor vehicle’s office last fall, just days after the US transportation department tightened commercial driver’s license