The Moscow Times attended the funeral of one of the thousands of servicemen believed to have died in Russia’s “special military operation.” On a cold March morning in a southern Russian suburb, several dozen people gathered at a church to say goodbye to one of their own. Inside a coffin wrapped in the Russian flag and the paratroopers’ standard lay 21-year-old Kirill Ulyashev — one of the thousands of Russian servicemen believed to have died in Moscow’s nearly month-long “special military operation” in Ukraine. “Kirill is here as a warrior of Christ,” the priest began. “He fought against evil, Satanic...