Western officials link incendiary devices in DHL Mail to Russia

DHL’s logistics hub in Leipzig, Germany, is sophisticated and enormous. So, when parcels in the facility started catching fire, at first, it was confounding and concerning. But it wasn’t long before European spies and law enforcement figured out what was happening. They say Russia was sending incendiary devices through the mail. Host Marco Werman speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Bojan Pancevski who got the inside story.

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