Bavovna

Bavovna (, , ) is a Ukrainian word and internet meme that originated during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, humorously used to refer to explosions, both those in Russian-occupied Ukraine and those in Russia itself.

== Origin == Starting in the 2010s, the Russian government began instructing the Russian mass media to refer to any explosion (primarily gas explosions) by the euphemism (, ), which literally means a "pop", or a "snap". In most writing, this word is spelled the exact same way as a Russian word for cotton, (, ), but pronounced with stress on a different syllable. The two are differentiated in written form via context.