MOSCOW, 23 Dec ready to deploy by the end of September, the country's defense ministry said Friday.
Earlier in March, NATO leaders, following an extraordinary NATO summit in Brussels dedicated to Ukraine, agreed to strengthen the eastern wing of the alliance by deploying four tactical groups in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that the new NATO battle group in Hungary will include several hundred military personnel from the United States, Italy, Turkey, Croatia and Montenegro.
«One of the combat groups was created in Hungary under the Hungarian leadership and by the end of September it had already reached full operational readiness for deployment,» the report says.