Within two decades Zhabinka turned from a village into a town, attracting people of commerce, after the station boosted the economic development of the place.

On July 30, 1920, the 63rd Infantry Regiment of the Polesie Group of the Polish Army, stationed near Żabinka, engaged with units from the Soviet 10th Rifle Division as part of their withdrawal to the Brest area during the Polish–Soviet War.

For 125 years, the town has been sprawling along the road from the railway station southwards to the highway Brest-Moscow, that is the major transcontinental traffic artery E30 today.

Today Kirov Street starts form the railway station, runs across the town center with a big square and a park, further on southwards to the highway.

In 2004, a Polish woman named Floria Budziszewska, who risked her life to save two Jewish children in Zhabinka, was posthumously awarded the Righteous Among Nations title.