US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called on the international community to join forces in response to Russia's aggression against Ukraine and the Kremlin's attempts to undermine the world order.

Austin said this at the Shangri-La Dialogue international security conference in Singapore, Ukrinform reports..

“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is what happens when the oppressors scorn the rules that protect us all.”.

This is what happens when big states decide that their imperial appetites are more important than the rights of their peaceful neighbors,” said the head of the Pentagon.. He stressed that Russia is destroying the world order based on rules.. And if you do not intervene, this will lead to the formation of a world filled with chaos, in which none of the civilized countries would like to be.

" We will use this moment to strengthen the international order based on rules,” Lloyd Austin urged, emphasizing that this is a matter of the future, in which everyone wants to exist safely..