US accuses UN chief of being too accommodating to Russia on grain deal.

The US felt UN secretary general António Guterres was too accommodating to Russia's interests when renegotiating the Black Sea grain deal, according to leaked Pentagon documents. The export deal was brokered by the UN and Turkey in July last year to help tackle a global food crisis that UN officials said had been worsened by the Ukraine conflict. The documents appear to describe private conversations between the UN chief and his deputy, and show that Guterres was keen to preserve the deal, even if that meant accommodating Russian interests.