The unmanned aircraft had landed directly beside a Ukrainian Antonov An-124 freighter and had come to rest on the tarmac undetected. Simultaneously, the drone caused a DHL cargo aircraft to abort its landing approach. At the time that the explosive drone was discovered on the tarmac, there were four of the Ukraine-owned Antonov aircraft parked on the apron near the device. An Attempted Russian Attack on Both NATO and UkraineThese An-124 aircraft were retired decades ago and remain in demand. Grounding or destroying even one of these Ukrainian aircraft would be a high cost to the NATO supply networks that depend on them.