The music of mourning


Members of the orchestra of the 101st Separate Guard Brigade of the General Staff rehearsing at their base in Kyiv. - Mauricio Lima/The New York Times

THREE gunshots rang out as an honour guard fired into the air over the snow-­covered cemetery.

Soldiers lifted a Ukrainian flag from a coffin and handed it to family members.

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