KYIV, April 21 — Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv was under intense bombardment today, its mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

"Huge blasts, the Russian Federation is furiously bombing the city,” Terekhov said in a televised address.

He said that around 1 million people remain in the northeastern city, while about 30 per cent of the population have evacuated, mainly women, children and the elderly. — Reuters