Abstract
This study analyzes CNN International's news discursive construction of nations in his reporting based on Van Dijk’s sociocognitive framework. Through a mixed-method approach of qualitative content analysis, linguistic analysis, and manual critical discourse analysis, the study investigates and examines how nations are constructed as part of in-groups and out-groups. The findings in the study show that USA interpretations of freedom, democracy, and human rights are used ideologically to emphasize the positive aspects of the USA, Ukraine, and allies as a part of in-group nations and the negative aspects of Russia and allies as an out-group.