Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) (formerly Soviet-annexed Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, eastern Poland and Soviet Belarus, extended eastward by including some parts of Western Russia) 1941–1944/45. Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) (formerly Soviet-annexed eastern Poland, and Soviet Ukraine minus District of Galicia, Romanian Transnistria and the Crimea, and in late May 1941 was extended eastward up to the Volga); 1941–1944.