World News: Your weekend long reads 🗞

Saturday, March 5

Good morning, friends of The Short List. Russia's ferocious assault on Ukraine is continuing, and the resulting humanitarian crisis is worsening. Follow our up-to-the-minute coverage at usatoday.com. Meanwhile, here are a few pieces from this week that help put the conflict into context.

•	Fact check: What's true, what's not about the Ukraine invasion
•	A new unity: How Russia's invasion has quickly reshaped Europe
•	'We will fight and win': Ukrainian civilians find ways, big and small, to resist
•	Cyberattacks: What you should do right now to protect yourself

►President Joe Biden took Russia to task and also tried to jump-start his domestic agenda in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. But there was more going on than just the speech:

•	USA TODAY's Susan Page: In a year, everything has changed for Biden
•	Opinion writer Eileen Rivers: Rep. Boebert's State of the Union heckle disrespected veterans like me

►In entertainment news, this week saw the season finale of HBO's provocative teen drama "Euphoria," in which the character Maddy confronts her former friend Cassie, who slept with her ex. Many fans related to the heartbreak and called it "triggering" of their own betrayal trauma . Last month, USA TODAY looked at fans' sometimes-uneasy relationship with the show's scenes of graphic sex and drug use.

There are more long reads below.👇 Have a great weekend.