In authoritarian Belarus, allied with Moscow, fears have grown its troops, too, will be sent to fight alongside Russia in the conflict in neigbouring Ukraine. Yulia Stachko, a new mother, says "I don't want to worry that I'm raising my boy only for him to be sent off to war". Ordinary Belarusians are deeply worried about the fighting, but they are also sympathetic to both sides of the conflict, AFP found. "We pray for everybody: for children, for men, for women, for anyone," says Olga Filipovich outside a church in the quiet town of Zaslavl, near the capital Minsk. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES