puffs of smoke
клубочки диму (від пострілів) (From the distant crest line came a lot of little puffs of smoke. - ‘My Early Life’ by Winston Churchill) (The real war, I feared, was just down the valley; I could see the thick puffs of smoke, the plumes from explosions, mostly in and around Garmsir. - Harry, The Duke of Sussex, Prince. Spare, p. 140)