Snowfall in Ladakh, Chinese soldiers leave the hills
Finger area temperature dropped to minus 4 degrees, the banks of Lake Pangong began to freeze
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New Delhi, 16 November: Despite the agreed negotiations in the military negotiations, the LAC is not showing any signs of easing the deadlock, but the first snowfall in Ladakh has also started impacting the troops. Especially on the northern side of Pangong Lake, the Chinese troops stationed at the height of 16 thousand feet of Finger area are becoming victims of cold. On reaching the temperature below 4 degrees below zero, most of the soldiers leaving the high hills have fallen ill and reached the Field Hospital of China near Finger-6. This condition of the Chinese Army is happening less than a kilometer away from the Indian position.
In the last two military negotiations between India and China, the two countries have come close to ending the deadlock on the ‘Top Secret Roadmap’ handed over to each other. In the eighth round of talks, China is 30 km from the Line of Actual Control. India has agreed to go back, after physical verification of which India is also 15 km. Willing to go back. Apart from this, it has been agreed to vacate the finger area. The military and military leadership of the two countries are preparing a ‘final roadmap’ on the basis of these agreements in the military commander-level talks, based on which an action plan is to be drawn up between the two countries in the next dialogue. The snowfall in Ladakh for the last two days before the 9th round of talks took place has started making an impact on the Chinese troops. Indian and Chinese soldiers stationed at the forward posts are watching the effect of the cold by constantly monitoring each other’s army.
The Depsang and Daulat Beg Oldi areas of the sub-sector North of Ladakh have been experiencing heavy snow for two days. Indian Army Field Hospitals have already opened in the Depsang area for Indian soldiers. High-level treatment has been arranged to protect Indian soldiers from dangerous conditions of severe cold, although Indian soldiers have experience of deployment at an altitude of about 22 thousand feet in Siachen and 29 thousand feet on Mount Everest. That’s why Indian Army soldiers are considered the best in high altitude battles. The 16,000 feet high snow capped mountains of Ladakh do not matter to the Indian Army, which has experienced expelling Pakistani intruders from 18,000 feet high snow peaks in Kargil. India has already prepared itself with the intention of taking the front from the Chinese even during the cold days.
New soldiers are being brought in place of Chinese soldiers who have been victimized by cold in the finger area, but their condition is also deteriorating in a single day. Chinese troops evacuated from the Finger-4 area are being taken for interim treatment. Chinese soldiers are suffering from frostbite, chilblains and dangerous high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPO). The Indian Army, recognized for its professional style and humanitarian sensation, is passing out unconscious Chinese soldiers through stretchers near their finger-6 Located in the field hospital. (HC)
