Drug-abusing Russian soldiers get sent to fight with Storm Z assault forces as punishment, intel says, putting them on the front lines with convicts

• UK intelligence said Russian commanders are likely punishing drug-abusing soldiers. 
• The commanders are apparently tossing the soldiers in so-called  "Storm Z assault detachments."
• A Russian news outlet previously reported that soldiers were getting hard drugs delivered to them on the front lines.

Russian commanders are likely often punishing soldiers using drugs and alcohol on the front lines of Moscow's grinding war with Ukraine by forcing them to fight alongside convicts, according to British intelligence and war analysts.