Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Birnin ya kasance a ƙarƙashin ikon Romania har zuwa 28 ga Yuni, 1940, lokacin da tare da Bessarabia da Arewacin Bukovina aka
Soviet Union ta mamaye shi. A watan Agusta 1940, Soviets sun kirkiro Chernivtsi Oblast, kuma sun hada da yankin da ke kusa da Khotyn zuwa gare shi, wanda ya zama wani ɓangare na Jamhuriyar Soviet ta Socialist ta Ukraine, ba ta Jamhuriyar Soviet ta Socialist ta Moldavian ba, kamar sauran Bessarabia. Bayan Operation Barbarossa, inda Romania ta yi aiki a matsayin abokin tarayya na Jamus, Romania ta sake karɓar yankin a farkon Yuli 1941. A cikin Maris 1944, tare da shan kashi na sojojin Axis, Soviets sun sake karɓar garin, kuma sun sake haɗuwa da Soviet Ukraine.