A year ago, after the Russian invasion on Ukraine, NATO defense ministers decided to create four new battlegroups in Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. The combat group in Hungary was the first to achieve full operational capability - the Hungarian Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said today in Brussels.

Soldiers sit in an Airbus H145M military helicopter during a special exercise of the Hungarian military to increase reactive and combat capabilities at the army's Bakony Combat Training Centre near Ujdorogd, September 2022. Photo by Tamas Vasvari/MTI/PAP/EPA

(JAP)