A cop who was also present during the shooting used colorfully used the term "war zone" when describing the scene.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/justified-timothy-olyphant-on-set-shooting-details/

Although several of Biden’s Cabinet officials and other American lawmakers had already traveled to Ukraine, getting the president in and out of an active war zone would be far more complicated from a security perspective.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/20/joe-biden-secret-kyviv-trip-00083618?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

And I’ve been inside those homes that can turn into a war zone in the blink of an eye.

Source: https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-york-democrat-slams-pro-palestinian-student-groups-blaming-israel-for-hamas-attack-that-letter-was-an-embarrassment/

An English manor house is not a war zone, but Kate behaves otherwise.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/arts/television/keri-russell-the-diplomat.html

Asked how he feels about being displaced and living in a war zone, Alyazji said, “I feel very sad and I think about my uncles and my grandfather’s house.”

Source: https://1310kfka.com/abc-news/world/11/im-afraid-war-stories-from-children-caught-in-the-middle-of-the-israel-hamas-conflict/

A vast dam was blown on Tuesday in the part of southern Ukraine controlled by Russia, unleashing a flood of water across the war zone, according to both Ukrainian and Russian forces.

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2023/06/06/massive-dam-destroyed-russia-ukraine-war-zone/

But most fled their places of work after Hamas’s brutal attack left dozens of foreign farmworkers dead or abducted and turned a large swath of southern Israel into a war zone.

Source: https://www.jewishtimes.com/amid-war-food-rescue-group-switches-from-relying-on-farmers-generosity-to-helping-them-survive/

“But over there, anyone can walk in off the street and be seen straight away and the country is a war zone.”

Source: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10420345/travelled-ukraine-dentist-cheaper-uk/

HUNDREDS of teenagers descended on seafront leaving businesses forced to close early in what has been described as being like a "war zone".

Source: https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/23696461.hundreds-teens-southend-seafront-beach-party/?ref=rss

Indeed, no other post-World War II Japanese premier has visited a war zone.

Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/05/the-hiroshima-g7-summit-and-japans-evolving-security-identity/

“I remember thinking it was like a war zone.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/floods-fires-and-more-floods-murray-watt-has-had-a-busy-year-20231212-p5eqyg.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

I see other human beings, beaten down, fearful, as if living in a war zone, which, in a sense, they are.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/26/the-walgreens-factor/

It also comes as Humza Yousaf's in-laws from Dundee are trapped in a war zone in Gaza with no way out.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-67113124?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

It could also convene outside the war zone, including at The Hague.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/politics/state-dept-tribunal-ukraine-war-crimes.html

It is clear many of the ‘dozens’ killed were conscripts, who Putin had vowed would not be sent to the war zone, said Shkrebets.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/04/14/ukraine-taunts-putin-by-releasing-footage-of-missiles-that-sunk-the-moskva-18611722/

“It was the first time in modern history that an American president went into a war zone not controlled by the United States,” the ad starts, narrated by a gravelly voiced man.

Source: https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/526644/biden-fires-2024-salvo-with-ukraine-war-zone-ad

Kramatorsk is now at the centre of a war zone between Ukraine and Russia.

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/national/missing-radioactive-capsule-western-australia-rio-tinto-kramatorsk-apartment-building-news/c7c01179-e243-4b34-9e38-1009be97f46b

Residents in Sudan's capital Khartoum have found themselves trapped in a war zone.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65299756?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Rob and Jayne with actor Bruce Byron and paramedic Faye Shepherd as they prepare for their next trip to the Ukrainian war zone.

Source: https://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/24011490.husband-wife-bill-actor-deliver-ambulance-ukraine/?ref=rss

Russia acknowledges having transferred thousands of children out of Ukraine, but says this has been done exclusively to protect orphans and children abandoned in the war zone.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/politics/russia-places-third-icc-official-on-its-wanted-list