Flooding caused by heavy rain and rivers bursting their banks in Armenia and Georgia has left one person dead, villages cut off and hundreds of people being evacuated from their homes, according to television footage and media reports in the region.

OSM, Natural Earth

The area is located in and around Kirants, one of the four Tavush villages affected by the Armenian withdrawal. Kirants will lose not only much of its agricultural land but also several houses and a bridge connecting it to the rest of Armenia.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with residents in the Tavush province to address concerns arising from the newly completed demarcation process along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, underlining that “not a single inch” of sovereign Armenian territory has been ceded.