This chapter examines the discursive representation of Ukrainian refugees in Romanian online news outlets between the beginning of the war in February 2022 and April 2024. Romania received millions of transitory refugees and issued nearly 180,000 temporary protection permits. Drawing on a Romanian-language corpus of 248 articles retrieved through a keyword search, the study investigates how media coverage categorized displaced Ukrainians through migration-oriented terminology that turns out to be ideology-laden. The media framing of Ukrainian refugees is subsequently approached through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Findings show that the refugee position central to the dataset collocates with humanitarian and solidarity themes, but is also associated with securitization, pressure, and threat, despite the fact that the term emigrant remains largely neutral. Six frames emerge from this distribution: solidarity and humanitarian support, integration, economic impact, security anxieties, geopolitical positioning, and political polarization. The analysis reveals that the studied Romanian media mainly construct Ukrainians as victims and symbolic cultural neighbors.