The article claims that the White House has instructed the US Department of Defense to postpone the planned long before this test of the hypersonic missile, so as "not to escalate tensions with Moscow."
The newspaper writes that American officials feared that such a test before the summit could "send the wrong signal or even sabotage the meeting."
According to an unnamed Pentagon official, Russia also "did not arrange provocative things before the summit."
At the same time, the White House called the Politico publication inaccurate, and the Pentagon refused to comment on this data.
In June, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the meeting between US and Russian leaders Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin had a positive impact on work on strategic stability and arms control.