Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Dunhu iri rakagadziridzwa nesarudzo yaGumiguru 11, 1939 zvakananga pakurwiswa kweBessarabia mushure mekunge Soviet Union yasaina Chibvumirano cheMolotov-Ribbentrop. Panguva iyoyo nharaunda yayo yaisanganisira iyo ichangobva kugadzirwa yeMoldova SSR, matanhatu oblasts eUkraine SSR (Izmail, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad) uye zvakare yeCrimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic sechikamu cheRussian SFSR. Odessa MD yakasimbiswa nezvikamu zvinoverengeka kubva kuUkraine Front iyo yakabatanidzwa mukupinda kweSoviet muPoland uye
Romania, yakambogadzirwa pahwaro hweOdessa Army Group ye "Kiev Special Military District" (yakagadziridzwa Kiev Military District).