United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced his resignation.

“Today I bid farewell to the Department of ENERGY,” he wrote on Twitter. “It has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime to serve in the Donald Trump Administration as your Secretary."

Earlier it became known that Perry would resign at the end of 2019, RIA Novosti reports.

He plans to work in the state of Texas where he was governor.

Perry has denied that the decision to resign was linked to his involvement in the "Ukrainian scandal."

Trump has nominated Dan Bruyette as the new Secretary of Energy for Senate approval.