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"
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 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