There are people in the world who want to return to the times of Napoleon's invasion, but they forget how this historical event ended, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“There are still some people who want to return to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended,” Putin said, RIA Novosti reported.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on March 5 that Russia had become a threat to France and Europe and called for a discussion on the use of French nuclear weapons to protect the EU, noting that the United States had changed its position on Ukraine and Washington's leading role in NATO. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Macron's statement about Russia extremely confrontational.