Running Elasticsearch on Ubuntu on WSL: "System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate."

I'm using WSL on Windows 11 (with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) and trying to use Elasticsearch on it. When I runsudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service, I get the error:

System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.

I understand systemctl is not available on WSL. So, I tried its alternative, service elasticsearch start, but then I get the error: elasticsearch: unrecognized service.

I understand there's been similar phrased questions on this website but I have already tried the alternative command but it's not working. So, please help how I can resolve this issue.