budapest feb 14 reuters  central european currencies and stocks fell on monday after a warning from the united states that russia could invade ukraine at any time pushed investors to safehaven assets such as the dollar western countries have accused russia of preparing to invade ukraine while moscow denies it has such plans cee equities fell tracking european peers warsaw wig20 led losses tumbling 324 to a more than twomonth low budapest bux fell 26 to its lowest since the start of the year pragues equities px were 197 lower and bucharest beti shed 251 currencies also plunged with the polish zloty and the hungarian forint each losing nearly 1 versus the euro the forint was trading at 35675 while the zloty was trading at 45710 per euro near a twoweek low the czech crown was 082 lower and trading at 24588 versus the common currency the weakest since jan 24 investors panicked when they heard views that russia could invade ukraine an fx trader in budapest said the market will not calm down any time soon everyone is on edge cee currencies will not be able to firm in this mood on the macro front fresh cpi data showed that cee economies are facing a continued surge in inflation central banks reacted to soaring prices by sharply lifting interest rates since last year which lifted currencies in the region czech headline inflation jumped to 99 in january the highest since mid1998 while consumer price growth in romania was the fastest in over a decade data showed on monday the data comes after prices in hungary grew at the fastest pace in 15 years a statistics office release on friday showed poland is due to release its data on tuesday reporting by anita komuves in budapest additional reporting by jason hovet in prague and alan charlish in warsaw editing by amy caren daniel