‘Not Refugees’: Polish Government Fact-Checks CNN on Belarus-Engineered Migrant Crisis

Poland’s national-conservative government has fact-checked CNN on the migrant crisis engineered on the European Union’s eastern border by Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus.

Stanisław Żaryn, spokesman for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services at National Security Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, admonished CNN after it published an article on the ongoing border crisis, which has seen mostly Middle Eastern and South Asian migrants clashing with Polish border guards, police officers, and soldiers manning the frontier.

The American news outlet, Żaryn alleged, had “missed the point” by characterising the situation as one in which...