On 25 August 1941, it was occupied by Nazi German troops, and the population that left the occupied area subsequently resisted the German army.

The village was part of the former Chernobyl Raion until 1988, when it was disestablished after the 1986 nuclear accident, and was one of the few villages in the raion that remained outside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

[4][5] From February to April 2022, Dytiatky was occupied by Russia as a result of the 2022 invasion.

It is the seat of one of the busiest checkpoints (Ukrainian: КПП Дитятки - KPP Dytyatky) to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, being on the main tourist route to the area and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (40 km [25 mi]).

It is the seat of the homonym rural council, that includes the villages of Fruzynivka and Zoryn, has an area of 38 km2 (15 sq mi) and a population of 1,011.