Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Obodo ahụ nọgidere n'okpuru nchịkwa Romanian ruo 28 June 1940, mgbe ya na Bessarabia na Northern Bukovina ọ bụ
Soviet Union weghaara. N'ọnwa Ọgọstụ 1940, ndị Soviet kere Chernivtsi Oblast, ma tinye mpaghara gburugburu Khotyn na ya, nke ghọrọ akụkụ nke Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic, ọ bụghị nke Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, dị ka ndị ọzọ nke Bessarabia. Mgbe Operation Barbarossa gasịrị, ebe Romania rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye Germany jikọrọ aka, Romania weghachitere mpaghara ahụ na mbido Julaị 1941. Na Machị 1944, mgbe ndị agha Axis meriri, ndị Soviet weghachitere obodo ahụ, wee jikọta ya na Soviet Ukraine.