Between 1st of May 2019 and 2nd of September 2019, Hungary led the Baltic Air Policing mission (BAP) responsible for the air defence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. After the misson, handover-takover ceremony was held at the Siauliai air base in Lithuania. At the event Zsolt Szabó, State Secretary at the Defence Ministry of Hungary and Vytautas Umbrasas Lithuanian Deputy Minister for Defence showed up and held speech. Csaba Ugrik base commander, chief of the closing BAP mission, handed over ceremoniously the key of the airspace to Jacobs Mollenbeck, Belgian commander of the incoming BAP mission.
