Army Posts Picture Of Northern Command Chief At 'Ground Zero' In Galwan Valley

The Twitter handle of the Indian Army's Northern Command has posted a picture of the Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the command, taken during his visit to "ground zero" in the Galvan River Valley, not very far from the site of the June 2020 clash between India and China.

The picture posted by the Northern Command shows Lieutenant General Dwivedi interacting with the soldiers of the Dogra Regiment with a large Indian flag on the cliff side of a mountain in the background. A smaller tricolour can be seen fluttering on a flagpole on the opposite side, along with the flag of the Dogra Regiment, which was earlier mistaken as the Snow Lion flag used by the Tibetans in exile.

Based on satellite imagery, Ladakh watchers have claimed that the picture of Lieutenant General Dwivedi in the Galwan Valley was taken at the forward-most camp of India in the area located before the buffer zone established as part of the disengagement process. This also explains the Northern Command's use of the phrase "ground zero" in the tweet above.