The government allocated 110 billion rubles to help the regions.
The funds are aimed at salaries for public sector employees, strengthening budgets and supporting infrastructure.
This decision was announced at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers by the chairman Mikhail Meshustin.
"Most of it will be used to reduce the debt burden and to finance socially significant expenses - the salaries of doctors, paramedical and junior staff, teachers and employees of cultural institutions. About one and a half billion of these funds will be received by the People's Republic of Donetsk and the Zaporozhye Region for the purchase of special equipment - loaders, excavators, the Prime Minister said.