Although, at the request of the US government, all employees of the Russian embassy left the offices of the San Francisco office and the trade missions in Washington, they did not cease to be the property of Russia, and no one removed the diplomatic immunity from them. Flags of Russia flutter over objects.

In violation of all norms on October 1 in the building of the Consulate General in San Francisco, breaking locks, penetrated by US special services, although the building has diplomatic immunity and no consent for inspection or search, no one gave. Later, at a protest of Moscow, the chief of the press service of the US State Department, Heather Nauert replied that the US State Department staff "just walked around, looked around to make sure that people do not live there anymore", since the time of Russians' stay in it. However, this "just walked" lasted a whole night. In the Twitter-account of the Russian Foreign Ministry there are photos taken during this "walk with inspection", it is evident that the light burns in several rooms at once.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said a strong protest: "We reserve the right to reply. The cornerstone for diplomacy has always been and is the principle of reciprocity. Accordingly, we understand that the Americans, breaking into our foreign institutions, actually agreed with the possibility of a similar treatment with their representations in Russia ". The actions of the American side were assessed as "unprecedented arbitrariness for the history of bilateral relations".