Russian President Vladimir Putin is praising the hack the broke in to the Democratic National Committee and leaked internal emails online -- but says Russia was not behind it.

Cyber security experts have fingered two hacking groups working with the Russian government in the DNC hack, which the FBI is also investigating, and Democratic officials say the breach was part of the Moscow’s attempt to influence the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. The hack resulted in the ouster of several top DNC officials, including its former chair.

In an interview with Bloomberg Thursday, Putin said the hack was a public service because it exposed the DNC’s apparent favoritism of Clinton during the Democratic presidential primary, but claimed, “I don’t know anything about it.”

“Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?’’ Putin said. “There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it.”

“The important thing is the content that was given to the public,” he added.