They do, however, promote and fund her.
That’s not necessarily her fault. But the notion that they are doing this in order to improve relations with the US is silly.
They want to foment chaos in the western democracies. And Putin blames Hillary for a variety of things, and sought revenge in 2016.
See the article below. Believe what you want. But realize this is not a particularly controversial view in the foreign policy community (experts, amirite?!).
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/europe/unit-29155-russia-gru.amp.html