A Kremlin spokesmen on Friday critiqued Thursday’s designations by the U.S. Treasury of Russian companies linked to North Korea and warned they will impact bilateral relations, in comments to several Russian government-linked news agencies.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday designated three Russian companies – the Independent Petroleum Company (IPC), its subsidiary Primornefteproduct, and Ardis-Bearings LLC – as well as a Russian national Igor Michurin.

IPC and Primornefteproduct were sanctioned for reportedly providing the DPRK with oil, while Ardis-Bearings LLC and Michurin have been tied to a DPRK-run trading company linked to WMD proliferation.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the