Power BI is converting date to datetime

I have a PowerBI report connected to Azure SQL Direct Query Mode (Advanced Option - where we can write SQL Statements).

I got date column in SQL DB (date type), but PowerBI is converting this to datetime, even it’s in date type in SQL DB. Now I cannot transform this column in PowerBI as its Direct Query. However, if I connect directly to table (Direct Query mode only, but not advanced option) it takes date column as date.

Sample Date values:

created_date
2002-02-19
2002-02-19
2002-02-19
2002-02-19
2002-02-19

Converted Date values by PowerBI

created_date
19-02-2002 00:00:00
19-02-2002 00:00:00
19-02-2002 00:00:00
19-02-2002 00:00:00
19-02-2002 00:00:00

Any inputs on this will be highly appreciated.

Thank you,