Yes, they definitely did that, but also communicated with Russian officials. Even if they didn't the embassy notice went out on the 9th I believe and the 19th Putin was publicly bloviating about it, and you can be sure that a notice like that in an embassy in Putin's own country that belongs to a country he's at war with would get pretty quickly to Putin and a whole lot of others in his dictatorship.
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