(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, APR 25 - Poland and Lithuania could help return Ukrainians of military age back to Ukraine, the countries' defence ministers said, as Kyiv ramps up efforts to replenish its depleted and exhausted military. Poland has tens of thousands of Ukrainian men of military age on its territory, according to UN figures. Ukraine is scrambling to recruit troops after more than two years of war and has recently passed a mobilisation law, lowering the fighting age and toughening penalties against draft dodgers. Late Wednesday it said it would stop issuing new passports abroad to some military-aged men under the new legislation. It has also suspended consular services for men aged 18 to 60 living abroad, sparking fury among expatriates in Poland and elsewhere. Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said late Wednesday that Warsaw could help in getting military-aged men back to Ukraine. "We have suggested for a long time that we can help the Ukrainian side ensure that people subject to compulsive military service go to Ukraine," he told Polsat television. "Everything is possible," he said when asked if Warsaw would agree if Ukraine asked for people subject to the draft be transported to Ukraine. On Thursday, his Lithuanian counterpart Laurynas Kasciunas said the authorities in Vilnius could follow Poland's moves. "I think this is the right way," Kasciunas told reporters, referring to the Polish minister's remarks. "Ukraine is very short of mobilisation reserve... This is not fair to those citizens who are fighting for their country," Kasciunas said. "We don't have that many such people in Lithuania. But we do have a small number," he said, without providing specific numbers. (ANSA-AFP).