coming up from around the Caspian Sea <from> the rest of the country

[güey]

Could you tell me please if the second "from" in the sentence is an error?

Conversely, however, if Ukraine became a NATO member state, it would surge the NATO frontlines far beyond the Carpathian mountains and far across the wider section of the North European plane and place the new defensible frontline across nearly 2 300 kilometers of open hard to defend flat land the easternmost section of which would only be a little more than 300 kilometers away from Volgograd, which, if taken, would shut down the entire Volga river and cut off Russia's valuable oil and gas resources coming up from around the Caspian Sea from the rest of the country, as nearly happened during the Second World War back when the city was better known as Stalingrad.

 

[probus]

It is not an error. The first "from" tells where oil is coming up from: the area around the Caspian Sea. The second "from" tells us what the oil and gas resouces would be cut off from: the rest of the country.

 

[Tarheel]

I would say:"and cut off Russia's valuable oil and gas resources from around the Caspian Sea."

Does Putin think he is fighting World War 2?
(Political comment faded - Moderator)

 

[Tdol]

The second from matters because it goes back to the verb cut off.

 

[emsr2d2]

Does it help you to look at it like this?

... would shut down the entire Volga river and cut off Russia's valuable oil and gas resources (coming up from around the Caspian Sea) from the rest of the country, as nearly happened during the Second World War back when the city was better known as Stalingrad.

The bracketed words in pale grey are simply information about the provenance of the oil and gas.

 

[teechar]

Could you tell me please if the second "from" in the sentence is an error?

No, but you can do away with the first "from". For example:

and cut off Russia's valuable Caspian Sea oil and gas resources from the rest of the country

The pattern is: cut off A from B.

 

[güey]

Thank you! May I ask this question here?
When he says "coming up from around the Caspian Sea", does the up indicate the northward movement?

 

[probus]

Yes, probably.