KIEV, July 31  -- The Ukrainian cabinet has ruled to allocate an extra 9.494 billion hryvnyas (around 791 million U.S. dollars) to the country's 2014 defence budget, the government press service said Thursday.

The money will come from the emergency fund of the state budget, and will be used to provide the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons, food, fuel and medicine, the press service said in a statement.

Part of the money will go towards providing support for families of servicemen killed in the government's military operation in the east, it added.

In mid-June, Ukraine increased its defence spending for 2014 by 22 percent to around 1.72 billion dollars in response to the tension in the eastern part of the country.