Ukraine launched a military operation in Kursk oblast at the beginning of August 2024, which caught both Russia and Belarus by surprise. In reaction to the event, Belarus increased its troops along the border of Ukraine. This study will assess the enemy image, securitization, and frames of existential threat surrounding the Kursk military operation in Belarusian state-runned BelTA and Russian-owned Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi (KP). A multimodal critical discourse analysis is used to analyze the media discourses of the two news outlets. The study has a comparative approach, identifying differences between the news outlets in the discursive construction of an enemy and securitization during armed conflict. Differences were found predominantly in the construction of an enemy where BelTA presented more features of a less dangerous, benign enemy, whilst KP more often presented a less humane, malign enemy. Two strands of securitization were identified in both news outlets: one strand being the securitization of energy structure and the second being the securitization of armed conflict.