evidence: In Ladakh’s Depsang Plains, India lost access to nearly 972 square kilometres of territory on its side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a report in the Indian Express, based on inputs from a top security officer, says. [...] Depsang Plains is located 30 km southeast of the strategically important Daulat Beg Oldi post in north eastern Ladakh. The Depsang Plains is strategically important not only because it lies close to the Karakoram Pass and the Daulat Beg Oldie airfield, but also because the Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DS-DBO) road passes through Depsang.