Nyora kuenderera kweiyi ndima - Dunhu rakagadziridzwa nesarudzo yaGumiguru 11, 1939 zvakanangana nekugara 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 neRomania
, yakambogadzirwa pahwaro hweOdessa Army Group ye "Kiev Special Military District" (yakagadziridzwa Kiev Military District).