diff --git a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/dashboards-page/overview-dashboard/inventory.tsx b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/dashboards-page/overview-dashboard/inventory.tsx
index 032980e4529..f93d12ffd45 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/dashboards-page/overview-dashboard/inventory.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/dashboards-page/overview-dashboard/inventory.tsx
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ export const getVMStatusGroups: StatusGroupMapper = (
         VMStatusSimpleLabel.Migrating,
         VMStatusSimpleLabel.Stopping,
         StatusSimpleLabel.Pending,
+        VMStatusSimpleLabel.Deleting,
       ],
       count: 0,
       filterType: 'vm-status',
diff --git a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/vms/vm.tsx b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/vms/vm.tsx
index a4da1af58fd..cc703458467 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/vms/vm.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/components/vms/vm.tsx
@@ -8,14 +8,11 @@ import {
   dimensifyHeader,
   dimensifyRow,
   getCreationTimestamp,
-  getDeletetionTimestamp,
   getName,
   getNamespace,
-  getOwnerReferences,
   getUID,
   getLabels,
 } from '@console/shared';
-import { compareOwnerReference } from '@console/shared/src/utils/owner-references';
 import {
   NamespaceModel,
   PodModel,
@@ -46,7 +43,7 @@ import {
   VirtualMachineModel,
 } from '../../models';
 import { VMIKind, VMKind } from '../../types';
-import { buildOwnerReferenceForModel, getBasicID, getLoadedData } from '../../utils';
+import { getBasicID, getLoadedData } from '../../utils';
 import { getVMStatus } from '../../statuses/vm/vm-status';
 import { getVmiIpAddresses, getVMINodeName } from '../../selectors/vmi';
 import { isVMImport, isVM, isVMI } from '../../selectors/check-type';
@@ -359,21 +356,7 @@ const VirtualMachinesPage: React.FC<VirtualMachinesPageProps> = (props) => {
           ...objectBundle,
         };
       })
-      .filter(({ vm, vmi, vmImport, metadata }) => {
-        if (vmImport && metadata.vmImportStatus?.isCompleted()) {
-          return false;
-        }
-
-        if (vm || !getDeletetionTimestamp(vmi)) {
-          return true;
-        }
-        const vmOwnerReference = buildOwnerReferenceForModel(VirtualMachineModel, getName(vmi));
-
-        // show finalizing VMIs only if they are not owned by VM
-        return !(getOwnerReferences(vmi) || []).some((o) =>
-          compareOwnerReference(o, vmOwnerReference),
-        );
-      });
+      .filter(({ vmImport, metadata }) => !(vmImport && metadata.vmImportStatus?.isCompleted()));
   };
 
   const createAccessReview = skipAccessReview ? null : { model: VirtualMachineModel, namespace };
diff --git a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/constants/vm/vm-status.ts b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/constants/vm/vm-status.ts
index 550540b04e0..60e9b7e2e0b 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/constants/vm/vm-status.ts
+++ b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/constants/vm/vm-status.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ export enum VMStatusSimpleLabel {
   Stopping = 'Stopping',
   Running = 'Running',
   Off = 'Off',
+  Deleting = 'Deleting',
 }
 
 export const VM_STATUS_SIMPLE_LABELS = [
@@ -43,6 +44,9 @@ export class VMStatus extends StatusEnum<VMStatusSimpleLabel | StatusSimpleLabel
   static readonly STOPPING = new VMStatus('VMStatus_STOPPING', VMStatusSimpleLabel.Stopping, {
     isInProgress: true,
   });
+  static readonly DELETING = new VMStatus('VMStatus_DELETING', VMStatusSimpleLabel.Deleting, {
+    isInProgress: true,
+  });
   static readonly VM_ERROR = new VMStatus('VMStatus_VM_ERROR', 'VM error', { isError: true });
   static readonly VMI_ERROR = new VMStatus('VMStatus_VMI_ERROR', 'VMI error', { isError: true });
   static readonly LAUNCHER_POD_ERROR = new VMStatus(
diff --git a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/statuses/vm/vm-status.ts b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/statuses/vm/vm-status.ts
index 2ad51110606..ba9ce7f5fc0 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/statuses/vm/vm-status.ts
+++ b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/statuses/vm/vm-status.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 import * as _ from 'lodash';
 import { K8sResourceKind, PersistentVolumeClaimKind, PodKind } from '@console/internal/module/k8s';
 import { createBasicLookup } from '@console/shared/src/utils/utils';
-import { getName, getNamespace, getOwnerReferences } from '@console/shared/src/selectors/common'; // do not import just from shared - causes cycles
+import {
+  getName,
+  getNamespace,
+  getOwnerReferences,
+  getDeletetionTimestamp,
+} from '@console/shared/src/selectors/common'; // do not import just from shared - causes cycles
 import { compareOwnerReference } from '@console/shared/src/utils/owner-references';
 import {
   buildOwnerReference,
@@ -215,6 +220,11 @@ const isVMError = (vm: VMKind): VMStatusBundle => {
   return null;
 };
 
+const isDeleting = (vm: VMKind, vmi: VMIKind): VMStatusBundle =>
+  (vm && !!getDeletetionTimestamp(vm)) || (!vm && vmi && !!getDeletetionTimestamp(vmi))
+    ? { status: VMStatus.DELETING }
+    : null;
+
 const isBeingStopped = (vm: VMKind): VMStatusBundle => {
   if (vm && !isVMExpectedRunning(vm) && isVMCreated(vm)) {
     return {
@@ -310,6 +320,7 @@ export const getVMStatus = ({
     isBeingMigrated(vm, vmi, migrations) ||
     isBeingImported(vm, pods, pvcs, dataVolumes) ||
     isVMError(vm) ||
+    isDeleting(vm, vmi) ||
     isBeingStopped(vm) ||
     isOff(vm) ||
     isError(vm, vmi, launcherPod) ||
diff --git a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/topology/components/nodes/VmNode.tsx b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/topology/components/nodes/VmNode.tsx
index f1cc6e4c933..13334287f0a 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/topology/components/nodes/VmNode.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/kubevirt-plugin/src/topology/components/nodes/VmNode.tsx
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ const ObservedVmNode: React.FC<VmNodeProps> = ({
     case VMStatus.STARTING:
       statusClass = 'kubevirt-m-not-ready';
       break;
+    case VMStatus.DELETING:
     case VMStatus.STOPPING:
       statusClass = 'kubevirt-m-terminating';
       break;