On 28 of June 1940, Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina and at the orders of Moscow, the northern part of Bessarabia, including the town of Hotin was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. On July 6, 1941, Hotin was reconquered by the German-Romanian armies, returning to Romania as part of the Bukovina Governorate. In the summer of 1944, the Red Army reoccupied the region.