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Unable to delete default VPC network

Hello,

I'm facing an issue with the deletion of the default VPC network (that is automatically created when a new project is created). We do not need a default network on our project.

The default network is not used by the project. When I deleted the default network from the gcloud console:
https://console.cloud.google.com/networking/networks/list

It failed with the following error:

Operation type [delete] failed with message "The network resource 'projects/rugged-abacus-218110/global/networks/default' is already being used by 'projects/rugged-abacus-218110/zones/europe-west2-b/instances/nbrt-7539272066822832128-p-europe-west2'"

I have checked compute instances, and we have none. I have checked other resources that could be using the network, but there doesn't appear to be any.

This has left the default network in an inconsistent state as it can't be deleted completely nor can it be restored.

Could you help please ?

Thank you

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