Original sentence: On June 26, 1940, at 22:00, Soviet People's Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov presented it to Gheorghe Davidescu, Romanian ambassador to Moscow, in which the Soviet Union requested that Romania "return" by June 28 the region of Bessarabia and "transfer to the Soviet Union the northern part of [the region of] Bukovina", as "a mean of recompense" for holding Bessarabia since the union of 1918.The Ultimatum also added: "Now, that the military weekness of the USSR in a thing of past, and the international situation that was created requires the rapid solution of the items inherited from the past, in order to fix the bases of a solid peace between contries".The northern part of Bukovina was requested as a minor "reparation for the great loss produced to the Soviet Union and Bessarabia's population by 22 years of Romanian domination of Bessarabia", and because the Soviets claimed that its "[...] fate is linked mainly with the Soviet Ukraine by the community of its historical fate, and by the community of language and ethnic composition".The text of the ultimatum note of June 26 distorted the demographic realities, alleging that Bessarabia is populated mainly by Ukrainians: "[...] centuries-old union of Bessarabia, populated mainly by Ukrainians, with the Ukrainian Soviet Republic"
Edited sentence: On June 26, 1940, at 22:00, Soviet People's Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov presented it to Gheorghe Davidescu, Romanian ambassador to Moscow, in which the Soviet Union requested that Romania "return" by June 28 the region of Bessarabia and transfer the northern part of the region of Bukovina, because of the large Ukrainian population living there and as a partial recompense (“the enormous losses, that Romania's 20 year rule caused”) for holding Bessarabia since the union of 1918,.The northern part of Bukovina was requested as a minor "reparation for the great loss produced to the Soviet Union and Bessarabia's population by 22 years of Romanian domination of Bessarabia".The text of the ultimatum note of June 26 distorted the demographic realities, alleging that Bessarabia is populated mainly by Ukrainians