Using the notion of news value as a guiding framework, the present study analyzes the manner in which Romanian news media outlets visually and discursively constructed the Russian-Ukrainian conflict throughout 2022–2024, with particular attention to the representation of social actors, the underlying power relations encoded in the images, and the reproduction of dominant political positions. The analysis of 256 news items with collage-type images illustrates the main patterns of visualizing in war-related coverage through news values of proximity and timeliness, prominence, consonance, negativity/positivity, impact and superlativeness, novelty, and (de)personalization. The results are interpreted in the context of salience and meaning of symbolic representations, audience preferences, political implications and constraints and requirements of Romanian media culture.