diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6a2317882ff..3d48cb98df3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 - Fixed styling issues with classic Live Preview. ([#15640](https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/15640))
 - Fixed a bug where fields were bleeding out of the content pane on smaller viewports.
 - Fixed a bug where Link fields didn’t allow URLs with TLDs longer than six characters.
+- Fixed a bug where hard-deleting an element wasn’t hard-deleting any nested elements as well. ([#15645](https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/15645))
+- Fixed a bug where it wasn’t possible to hard-delete nested elements from embedded element index views. ([#15645](https://github.com/craftcms/cms/pull/15645))
 
 ## 5.3.6 - 2024-08-26
 
diff --git a/src/elements/NestedElementManager.php b/src/elements/NestedElementManager.php
index 0836b106413..1540b50088f 100644
--- a/src/elements/NestedElementManager.php
+++ b/src/elements/NestedElementManager.php
@@ -1236,6 +1236,7 @@ public function deleteNestedElements(ElementInterface $owner, bool $hardDelete =
             $elementsService = Craft::$app->getElements();
             $query = $this->nestedElementQuery($owner)
                 ->status(null)
+                ->trashed(null)
                 ->siteId($siteId);
             $query->{$this->ownerIdParam} = null;
             $query->{$this->primaryOwnerIdParam} = $owner->id;
diff --git a/src/elements/actions/Delete.php b/src/elements/actions/Delete.php
index c4b247430d4..29f80cb6e9f 100644
--- a/src/elements/actions/Delete.php
+++ b/src/elements/actions/Delete.php
@@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ private function deleteElement(
         Elements $elementsService,
         array &$deleteOwnership,
     ): void {
-        // If the element primarily belongs to a different element, just delete the ownership
-        if ($element instanceof NestedElementInterface) {
+        // If the element primarily belongs to a different element, (and we're not hard deleting) just delete the ownership
+        if (!$this->hard && $element instanceof NestedElementInterface) {
             $ownerId = $element->getOwnerId();
             if ($ownerId && $element->getPrimaryOwnerId() !== $ownerId) {
                 $deleteOwnership[$ownerId][] = $element->id;