(RTTNews) - The Labor Department released a report on Thursday showing a continued acceleration in the annual rate of U.S. consumer price growth in the month of February. "The Russia-Ukraine war adds further fuel to the blazing rate of inflation via higher energy, food, and core commodity prices that are turbo charged by a worsening in supply chain problems," said Kathy Bostjancic, Chief US Financial Economist at Oxford Economics. Next Tuesday, the Labor Department is scheduled to release a separate report on producer prices in the month of February.