seamen

Last month, several Filipino seamen were injured when a Chinese vessel sideswiped a smaller Philippine vessel and another two Chinese coast guard ships used high-pressure water spray to shatter the Philippine vessel’s windscreen.

"Investigators state I used physical force towards other seamen… expressing intentions of participating in hostilities against the Russian Federation," Levchenko writes.

Officials say another 28 people are unaccounted for but the families of seamen say the number is probably much higher.

The researchers have estimated that the proportion of lung cancers related to onboard asbestos exposure were of the order of 27 per cent in Australian seamen and 12 per cent in British seamen.

It said Kim later watched the ship’s seamen conduct a drill of launching “strategic” cruise missiles, a word implying the weapons were developed to carry nuclear warheads.