The Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of a neighboring sovereign state, Ukraine, in February 2022. Since then, the United Nations has been paralyzed to restore international peace and security in Eastern Europe. By employing the WPR approach, this thesis conducts a poststructural policy analysis of the address given by the President of Russia on February 24, 2022. The aim is to discover how the strategic challenge is represented and what discursive effects the representation is apt to have. The analysis suggests that the problem representation given by the president of the Russian Federation produces subjectification of minor states to a great power competition.