Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia, Volhynia and Northern Bukovina

1941. Eastern Galicia and Volhynia were the regions that contributed the most to this. Some other Polish territory also invaded by the Soviet Union was

part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Russian annexation during the Partitions of Poland, all of Volhynia was made part of the Pale of Settlement

Between 28 June and 3 July 1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that

Bukovina is a historical region in Eastern Europe. The region is located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia or Kingdom of Rus/Russia,[better source needed] was a medieval state in Eastern Europe